Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

Pessimism is my default setting.

God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.

When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.