I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

I'm sick of environmentalism.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.