The point of any cartoon in any newspaper is to challenge belief systems. We knew it would offend, but that doesn't make it the explicit goal of the cartoon.

The PPI number had some pipeline pressure underneath the surface, but the market liked the fact that the core rate was up only 0.1 percent,

The photo that I looked at, I don't know if the photographer didn't like that he was chewing gum, but he had him put his gum on his hat. I kinda liked that. So, I chewed gum for about a month and saved it on a plate and then finally attached it into the canvas.

The players had their own view, they would have liked to have carried on the way we were playing,

The only things I know firsthand come from a couple of friends who played with him, and they really liked him as a teammate. I put more weight on that than the rest of the stuff that has been so well-documented.