One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.
Don't have a cow, man.
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.
I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.
Me fail english? Thats unpossible.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.