It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

I was raised on NBC television.

You have people saying two things that seem to contradict each other. One, that we live in a golden age of TV. The other, that television is dying. There's a reason for that. What we mean when we say it's dying is that it's already way past being fragmented into little chunks. Now it's being polarized into an aerosol mist.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

I guess working in the legitimate industry, the best thing you can take away from it is acceptance of the incompetence that often surrounds you. No, that sounds horrible. The most important thing, I guess, is the fact that working in the legitimate industry, what I see all too often is people trying to interpret the wishes of the audience, which with today's technology, is all too easy to measure empirically.