Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.

You express different energies at different times in your life.

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.