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

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

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

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

The only burning passion I'm sure I have is the passion for sex.

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 didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.