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“I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.”
“I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right - usually a bit better than my mental picture.”
“I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.”
“I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.”
“I have a problem with making eye contact with people, or with holding eye contact.”
“My mum was into pottery and embroidery, very artistic, and she knew some people from the college, which I think was how I got into it. My dad, who was a head-hunter, was also an incredible artist, and when he was very young, he was a really good cartoonist.”
“You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.”
“Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.”
“It's not that I never do interviews or that I find them traumatic. It's just that I'm basically not that comfortable doing them.”
“If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?”
“I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.”