I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fidd….

Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I t….

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. That's so demoralizing and goes against every principle that I hold. It's like, okay, some rich peopl….

Your vigor for life appalls me..

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist..

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that..

They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscape….

I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporation….

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my a….

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate..

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotyp….

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider..

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel..

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyon….

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witne….

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys w….

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try..

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp..

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts..

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff..

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first..