The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

I worked in a Chinese restaurant.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.