I don't try to be feminist. I just am. It's innately inside me. I have no interest in trying to be the perfect feminist, but I do believe feminists are in good hands with me.

The kids didn't call me Amy Schumer; they called me Amy Jewmer. One summer, I'll never forget this, all the kids took turns throwing handfuls of pennies at me. I know, I was like, 'Excuse me - this is awesome!

Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right.

I'll never forget the day I realized I wasn't quite the Ford model I thought I was.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

I've got a terrible person in me just as much as anybody else, and I think - I like to think I also have a really good person in me.

Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis.