Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

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

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

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

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

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

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