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.

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

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

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

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.

I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.