If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

It is rare, with people who are on television or celebrities or actors - it's rare to go to their house for a party and find they cooked. That's rare. Usually people don't cook for their own parties, and they don't buy their own gifts. There are people that do that, and that is a special thing. Those kind of little human touches are nice.