I listen to Emmylou Harris. She's my favorite. I don't know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing.

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.

I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.

Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.