Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

Few, if any, survive their teens.

Necessity has no law.

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It.

This guy [Donald Trump] is not going to get pushed around.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock