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I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' Yeah, that's what I look for.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.