"Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it."

"I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking people love him. Same with Gene Hackman."

"My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families."

"Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in."

"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."

"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."