Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

I'm an Aries. I need everybody to like me.

There's two sides to the coin. I think I'm much happier that [Barack] Obama won over John McCain or Mitt Romney, because I think Obama did something culturally for the country.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.