I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, "All right, I'll self-publish it. But I'm only going to do 1,000."

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 didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

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

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.