Nutty fans are fine with me, as I have no known nut allergy. In general, though, it's best to carry an EpiPen to deal with outbreaks of fan nuttiness.
I willed myself into being.
I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.
People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.
I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.
When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.
I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie rock.
I love James Baldwin's autobiographical writing.
I loved 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith.
I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers.
So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of it.
Celebrity culture is... it's not something that I'm attracted to. I guess I don't think of myself in that way, but potentially other people do. I feel I'm at the far periphery of that.
I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.
I really feel like social media - it's like all these tiny stages that you put yourself on. And you come to rely on these likes and favorites, and it's this applause and this validation that you start to need. Then it's like you don't know how to soothe yourself, and I think it's very pernicious.
There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions about the next step of the process, and you kind of want more control over the translation from page to screen.
I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.
To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.
That's so rare in the world of TV or film to have a genuine friendship turn into something that people watch, that people relate to. That's so unique.
I think that the most well-intentioned, optimistic, creative people often live for the moment, and for 'Portlandia,' our goals were always very sort of short-term and attainable.
I'm such a big fan of 'The Bachelor.'
