Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I’m not a great guitar player by any means. I’m not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don’t play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.
I think comedy’s just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.
I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?
When I was 13, I wasn’t the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
I don’t like plain nails. I get sad.
I think the best comedic actors don’t play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it’s real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do – it’s embarrassing.
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That’s like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I’m memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.
I don’t know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn’t even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
If people just want to be famous, that’s just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you’re doing.
I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.
I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I’d say it’s appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
I’ve always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.
I’m into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn’t feel true, I don’t want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that’s why I don’t always fit into the world of performing arts.
Humor is a part of spirituality.
I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.