I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time.
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time.
Over the years, I've come to realize that writing 'I Ain't Living Long Like This' was an exercise in combined musical influence, mostly that of Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan - artists no one has ever heard of.
I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys.
I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'
I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
It was like I was Hannah Montana! I was a normal girl from Pittsburgh one minute and then a pop star the next!
I've always wanted to be a PC Music girl, like Hannah Diamond or SOPHIE.
In the '90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you've got people like Hannibal Burress, Ron Funches, Maria Bamford - people who can play any club, anywhere.
Often, African-Americans' work is accepted as if we did something artistic by happenstance. It's almost like, 'They make TV shows the same way they dance. It's just natural!'
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.
I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
