I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.

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.

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

I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said "hell" and "damn" in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

Comedy is often about pain.

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