It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing."

I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

I always felt like I had to leave Canada, which I think is a common perspective - feeling as if you have to leave because otherwise you'll be too soft, and that objective reality exists in America. And I'm starting to feel like that doesn't have to be the case.

I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.