Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

I like playing frisbee. It is the only sport where you can throw something at a person and it's okay.

Being real is what is important.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.

It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.