I've met a lot of rock stars when they come to The Simpsons, and almost every one of them I get really freaked out.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

Association bring you into the larger world of other people and things. Not having that is a kind of prison, a prison of such a limited consciousness, of such a limited frame of reference and association.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."