"For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating."

"I like my home and I like the nature."

"Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one."

"People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular."

"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."

"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."

"I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny."

"It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them."