When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.

When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.