No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.

I've only been to one concert in my life.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.

I think sometimes when you can feel the velocity of change, like nowadays, you really need a seat belt. It's almost like having a growth spurt that you can feel, like a 16-year-old who woke up one day and grew four inches literally overnight. That can be a painful thing sometimes.

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.