...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.

Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us.

Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

My hope is Donald Trump makes things better. And if he does, we'll all benefit from it.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

The health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.