I've worked with incredible producers who have also taken my voice and brought it to another level. I think I have some natural abilities, but it's the technique that I've been learning from the best that keeps me going. I'm really honored to do it.

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

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

Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.