The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.