I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return. I look at it as, I happen to have the means, I have the energy and I have the passion to do what I want to do.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.