The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story about the purchase of a wife by a Wisconsin businessman. The research of that would have been really interesting.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

I think the way I can sing the way I sing is because of the way I talk to my animals. I hit some really high notes.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?