When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep.
I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.
I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.
I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God?
I wake up and check my Instagram to see what I missed out on last night. Then I check my Twitter. Then I check my Tumblr.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.
Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up.
You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
Hope is the whisper of our soul. It is always with you. So never give up. Persist with love.
We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.
It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.
