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.

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

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.

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

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

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