Women just get really hard on each other.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

You find your tribe and you stick with them.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

In our life there are moments when we have to move forward...Regardless of how others may see us. Even if I make a mistake, I wont regret it!

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

Merit clears away obstacles.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Do you have the heart to push yourself? If you don't, find a way to get it because talent will only get you so far. You've got to be hungry. You've got to have heart. That's just reality.