You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.
Random things make me laugh.
I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.
Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.
Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."
I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.
I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?
The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.
It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
As a kid, I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?
I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.
People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.
I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.
Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.
I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.
I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.
I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.
I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.
From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.
When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.
I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.
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