[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we over-identify with it. If we laugh at it, we're saying, "Oh, I'm laughing at myself, which means my victimhood isn't all of who I am."

I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in my life.

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."