I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

It's interesting how songs can evolve. Sometimes I'll write a song that feels relevant in the moment, but four years later, I don't want to sing it anymore. Then something will happen in my life, and the song becomes relevant again.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.

My favorite days off on the road are typically nowhere, like Bismarck, North Dakota, and you find yourself in a mall, and you're like, 'This is awesome!'

Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.

I scored one film by myself, which was the hardest thing I think I've ever done.

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.

I'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.

I learn lessons with every interview I give.

The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.

I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

I used to be a huge collector, and my big thing was stickers.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.

I hope that the restaurant I go to will have buffalo chicken fingers. I hope that one day I can work with Matt Damon. I have big and little dreams, and they're all equally important to me. A life without buffalo chicken fingers, I don't know if I would want that life. Even if it meant I got to work with Matt Damon. Everything has its worth.

There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.

I've become very interested in the ways things can change even with someone you've known for many years and you've committed to for life. How drastic can you damage things in the way you speak to someone?

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.

I just really like it when things are earnest.

I'm usually a fairly harsh critic. It depends. I tend to really not watch my work, because I just feel uncomfortable, and I can be highly critical.

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me before, but now we're on this date, going to see the 'Sixth Sense.' And right before the climax, he leans in - and I'm so excited, because I think we're going to French-kiss - and then he tells me the twist. He completely ruins the movie for me.

I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.

My baseline function is I'm usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I've got a spring in my step - that's what I've been like all my life.

I love waking up in the morning. It makes me feel really excited.

I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like. I was in an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, which is not my idea of folk art; but I really enjoyed making it, and everyone was really nice.

Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

I always thought that farts were funny, and I always thought that they were mine to talk about because they came out of my body.

You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.

'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.

I think it's important to not just speak to like-minded people.

There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.

I think I was aware when I started doing stand-up, especially on my own, that, yeah, I'm getting up on stage, and I'm a woman, and I dress in a sort of typically feminine fashion.

'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.

People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.

I think that there have been a lot of fear-based assertions that feminism is about aggression, and that is incorrect and untrue. Feminism is about equality; that's what it's about.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

There's a whole thing now in the entertainment industry that's like, 'You need to write for yourself. Those are the people that are really valuable.' And it's just like, 'I don't want to! I just want to act!'

If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.

Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.

There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.