It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together.

I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.

I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.