When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

What sets 'Archie' apart from the many, many times I've reworked and rebooted long-standing characters is that this time, it was really scary.

I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went, people were nice and gave them things until they found the chew toy.

On some sets, if a helicopter goes by, what would normally happen is that somebody would go, 'There's a helicopter. Stop.' I'd never stop for a helicopter. I am always trying to make sure that the machine is in service to the actors.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

I want to play Villanova basketball.

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

I'd go toe-to-toe with anybody in the Boston media over our group, 18-35 year-old guys.

When I started out rapping, I became very frightened by the idea that people were trying to pigeonhole me. That's usually what happens to most female rappers. They fit in a box and there's a prototype or person they're compared to.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

The United States is going to keep on with its imperialist ways.

I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Whatever you want me to bake, I'll do it badly.