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

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.

I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

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

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken.

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