I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I've always been wary of marriage.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.