I like to respond with jokes and to keep it as light as possible.

I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.