I'm always going to the toy store; I even have a room full of plastic models.

For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation in order to highlight their individual characteristics.

So many, many people have helped me out with 'Dragon Ball' through the years. Obviously, there are the fans from all over the world who've cheered me on.

Come to think of it, even though I've received tons of fan letters and presents from everyone, I've never written anyone back. How rude of me!

I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper.

A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. 'What? They'll grow mold like this!' they said. People who do things properly apparently make a dedicated manuscript room, where they can control humidity.

Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.

For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.

Awww, I was so shy about watching my own work broadcast on TV.

The women I draw all have the same sort of personality. I can't draw gentle girls; I only know how to draw ones who are strong-willed.

'Dragon Ball''s villains were easy to draw: Piccolo, Freeza, Majin Boo.

I think comics are faster to draw with a pen and then fill and tone by computer. But my illustrations are all done via computer. I even draw the lines on a tablet.

I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side.

There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.

What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I'd sell anyhow, so I didn't even consider using a pen name.

I would often draw in my sleep. That alone made for twice the work... I couldn't use the weird stuff I drew while dozing off, so I'd end up having to draw it all over again.

I have absolutely no preferences when it comes to food.

I don't like music that much... I put on the TV. But I often play things like fast-tempo disco or Queen. I've liked those since way back when.

A teleporter would be nice. There are lots of places I want to go, but getting there is a pain.

I think it's best to know about lots of different things besides comics. I don't think you can become a cartoonist if you look at nothing but cartoons.

Ever since I was little, I've shied away from romance. It's not that I dislike women, but I'm not good with them.

Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule.

If I had moved to Tokyo, I might even have become a completely different person... although, ever since the start, I've never wanted to move to Tokyo. I just can't handle there being so many people.

I'm good at - or, rather, I like - giving names to characters.

With manga, in my art style, I don't do much in the way of techniques to create depth. But even though I don't do depth techniques through my art, I am conscious of depth itself.

With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves.

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

In manga, nothing actually moves, and you just have to draw the poses in each panel, but in anime, you have to draw the movements between those poses.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

How do you make things fair?

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.