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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page.

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.