Kids spend seven hours a day in school, and they have their homework at night. I'm not there to moralize or to teach them right from wrong. We're there to provide something that is really fun, that's a diversion.

My friends and family would say I'm in an arrested mental state of development.

I think so much of kids' television, kids' entertainment, is done by adults from a looking-back point of view. If we come up with a really great joke that will make me laugh hard and would make my friends laugh, we pitch it aside.

I don't want to wake up at 60 and have to call the neighbor who's 12 to help me with my computer.

You don't want to hang out day after day with people you don't want to be with.

That's the goal with TV, to make something that everybody likes and that gets remembered forever.

I realize we're not curing diseases with 'iCarly,' and we're not doing Shakespeare. It's not an Academy Award-winning film, but it has definitely touched people universally.

'iCarly' gives me the luxury of addressing the fans directly. It was a sort of loving nudge to the fans saying, 'We're just a fun little sitcom to make you laugh.' This isn't a heavy-duty soap opera.

I had a great relationship with my parents, but there's something about hanging out with your older sibling that just has a whole new level of cool for a kid.

What I loved about TV when I was a kid was that no matter where you came from or who you were - black, white, rich or poor - you knew the same shows. It was a common thing in our culture.