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The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.

I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

I've said all along I've never competed with 'The Simpsons.' Not in my own mind.

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.

I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.