I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

Don't regret

People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.