I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on a backpack just doesn't have the same appeal as watching it on TV.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high, he's either giddy or utterly devastating and crying like a lawnsprinkler... SpongeBob is bipolar.

I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.

Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.