“There's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the oc...” — Tony Hinchcliffe Quote

There's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it's called Puerto Rico.

I don't have the patience for big industry to give me validation.

There is no victim mentality whatsoever in Texas. In Austin we are hyper aware of the existing freedom of American stand-up comedy and the audiences here and the people that travel here for shows know exactly what they are getting into and love it.

Everything that happened there in the '70s and '80s made it an important place for me. As a kid I became obsessed with David Letterman, Andy Kaufman and Jim Carrey, and those three guys specifically are all Comedy Store alumni.

If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage that I can stick in a book.

I've been deeply involved in writing garbage since I was 16.

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.

My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.

When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.