My BRAIN subconsciously LIMITS itself to panel compositions that my HAND can ACTUALLY DRAW.

Experience SEEMS to most of us to LEAD to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn NEVER to DRAW them.

Lying in BED would be an altogether perfect and SUPREME experience if only one had a colored PENCIL long ENOUGH to draw on the ceiling.

You are DEFINED by your INGREDIENTS, by the way you TOUCH them, by the flavors you DRAW from them.

Some GAMES you WIN, some you LOSE, and some you DRAW.

I DRAW from the CROWD a LOT.

I like the WAY Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary STREET in slow motion. I wish I could ACHIEVE that KIND of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather DIFFICULT to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.

Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored PEOPLE and had friends among them; and later was to WORK from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I WORKED from in NEW YORK. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

I REMEMBER being in high school, and you had to draw those LINES and DEFINE yourself. I don't think when I was in high school I would have been WILLING to admit that I liked the Shins. I was into TSOL and Black Flag. I probably would have listened to the Shins secretly in my bedroom.

I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I WANTED to, for I can't DRAW, and a pair of scissors in my hands BECOMES a dangerous WEAPON.

You can write a SCRIPT, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to DRAW it, and you work out how to LAY the page out, how BEST to tell the STORY.

When you're looking for a sketchbook, you've got to FIND the right paper for the pens you like to use. I like to draw on both SIDES of the page.

I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a VIDEO game that people AROUND the globe can enjoy and RELATE to, I can't draw things deeply rooted in the local culture that I'm not FAMILIAR with. That's why we are not doing GAMES about football or samurai.

I DISH the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my MOTHER and children have to take it? In 20 YEARS, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not TRUE, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and SAY No.