If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.

Fear focuses the mind.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.