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You hear things about certain people. When you hear someone was mean to a limo driver or a wardrobe lady, or someone was rotten to a fan, somewhere in your brain it gets stuck.
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My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in show business. Never wanted anything else. I used to sneak in the costume room at my nursery school and smell the costumes.
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Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.
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I'm a New York girl. I come out of New York theater.
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I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.
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With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.
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Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you.
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I love Vines. You make this 6.4-second drama, and you can reach 6 million viewer, and make people laugh. I find it so fabulous.
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What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.
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Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.
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When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.
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Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.
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Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.
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A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
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Disharmony is natural in any band.
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Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
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I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'
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I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.
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I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.
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I love school. I was a great student.
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I'm a good person.
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Things work in cycles.
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I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
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You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
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I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.
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I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.
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The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
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I'll be working until I die.
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Women are still second-class citizens.
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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I'm not a list person.
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Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.
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I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.
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I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.
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I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.
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A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.
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For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
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I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.
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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
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My job is intense. It's very physical.
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People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
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People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.
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I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
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I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.
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We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.
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I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.
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I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me he wanted to go out on this chat show we were on to laugh with me. Now he's ruined it. I can't make another joke about him.
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I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to eating a lot of processed foods. I think it's the preservatives that keep me going. That, and I eat as much chocolate as I can get my hands on.
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You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.
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I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.
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