When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - to spend a day with me driving around just to take snapshots.

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.