My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes, doing what he wants, working with people that he likes, and enjoying himself to his very old age.

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.