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It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.