I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.

If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.