The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

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

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 didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

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

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.