When I was 14, I told my mother I was going to drop out of high school and go do stand-up comedy. All she said was 'Oh maybe it's better if you just die,' because it was killing her that I was doing this.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

It makes it very hard to say what you believe in and not be attacked for it. And it's not fair; I'm Korean, but I'm not supposed to talk about my experience and my life? It's unaccepting.