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

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

I feel like I'm a showbiz professional. This is my job, it's going to have ups and downs. I'm lucky to be able to do this for a living, but I also do feel like I don't anticipate changing the world. All I can really do is do a good job when I'm hired to do a job, and be happy at home.

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

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