I took a lot of influences from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese animation studio that made 'Spirited Away' and 'Castle in the Sky.' They're like the Japanese version of Disney - but without all the schmaltz.
Jamie Hewlett
The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.
To be an artist is to doubt yourself and try harder.
The more you draw, the better you get.
Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.
When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.
I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person.
I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.
I have a problem with making eye contact with people, or with holding eye contact.
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.
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'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.
When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.
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.
You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.
That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.
Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.
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 used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.
I need to find a way of retaining creative control.
I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.
I can't see anybody wanting to go to 'Tank Girl: The Musical!'
I love zombie films.
I don't like collaborating too much.
I'm all about doing things myself because I find it hard to trust other people. Not trust, but I know exactly what I want to do, and I know exactly how it's supposed to look.
I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.
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.
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.
My parents weren't very good at keeping things, which is why I treasure my own sons' work so much now - I don't want to lose anything.
