I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

We're all idealistic when young.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.