There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.

At the beginning of my career, fresh out of college, I did everything that I could do. And now I'm a little bit more selective. I think that's sort of a natural process.

If you're in a good marriage, you have the sense that it won't be forever.

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.

Nowadays, performers who want to create their own material put it on the Internet. I never knew whether or not it would make an impression - and frankly, I didn't care that much about how it would be received.