I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

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

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

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.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.