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.

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

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 guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

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

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

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