I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

But my problem was that I did an hour for Comedy Central and nobody seemed to care.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.