Every character I do is based on someone I know.
I've always been a misfit.
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.
I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.