"Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme."

“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”

“When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.”

“If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over" - Suze Simon in the Mediator”

“I get enough of that on the news, so I didn't want to deal with fundamentalists or any sort of thing like that. I just wanted to keep it as lighthearted as the Cold War was, which obviously it was a fun time for everybody.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

“I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.”

“I recently realized that I'm gender-fluid - I didn't even know that was a term until recently - but I have a strong effeminate side and identify with women in that way. Because women would make jokes and they were all really funny, but the straight male comics always said "faggot," or they had some really awful gay joke. And so it's like, I'm just going to watch the ladies because they don't - I'm sure there are, but I couldn't even tell you one woman comic that I've ever heard say the word "faggot."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.”

Source : Attributed to Diane Sawyer in R.L. Messner, S.J. Lewis "Increasing patient satisfaction" (p. 185), 1996.

“Silence is so important when you're working, You must have periods where you don't hear anything, just to reflect on you've already done. Otherwise you traumatize your relationship with the piece that you're working on.”