The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.