They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

Your vigor for life appalls me.

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

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

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

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