I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment.

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

I talked to people in the pencil industry and I talked to people as I was sharpening their pencils about the frustrations they have with pencils, so I really did do my research and I do know more about pencils than most people.