I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.

Even as a child, you can recognise the innocence of Piglet or the strange adult qualities of Eeyore. You just know you are with friends and family.