Abbi Jacobson

I am obsessed with the painter Jonas Wood, but I don't think I'll ever be able to afford one of his paintings. He's an L.A.-based painter; his stuff is incredible.

I sometimes worry that maybe it's better to be really good at one thing than be okay at a couple things.

I find the most normal things about famous people to be the most fascinating.

I'm really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.

I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

I would love to be at a place where a girl character can also be a role model for young boys.

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

I love Maira Kalman. She's an amazing illustrator and writer. I've loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing about, I developed a whole new appreciation. Her work made me observe everything so much deeper and more joyfully.

I would love, obviously, someone like Gloria Steinem to do anything with me. We would obviously have to get lunch after, and she'd have to sign stuff for me.

If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.

I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

I didn't go to school for illustration. I did larger pieces, mostly drawings and paintings, and minored in video, but when I moved to N.Y.C., I didn't have a studio space anymore and downsized to my desk and started illustrating. I started a greeting card company and sold cards all over the city.