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.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

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.

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

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

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

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