So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.