"As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy."
"I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'"
"Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued."
"I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it."
"My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction."
"It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get."
"I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person."
"Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either."
"Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them."
"I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order)."
"I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously."
"Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check."
"It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop."
"One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever."
"My mother was so stylish, but she never pushed that on me. She always thought I looked cool."
"People complain about Hollywood comedians, but I feel like I selected a tremendous group, ones who aren't fame-obsessed."
"A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people are like, 'I don't want to hear about your kids!' I'm like, 'Prepare yourselves. That's all I'm going to talk about.'"
"I don't thrive on misery myself. I mean, I've obviously created during a time of misery, but I also create from a place of joy."
"When I was first asked for an autograph, I felt so uncomfortable that I just wrote, 'Tig's Autograph,' and from then on, that's what I write when I sign my name."
"My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole thing in my life was if anybody had a problem with me, tell them to go to hell."
"I got my first guitar when I was nine because I wanted to be the fifth Beatle, even though they had already broken up and John Lennon died that year."
"Luckily, I'm not a gambler or a drinker or - you know, I get my fix of comedy."
"Before I had a double mastectomy, I was already pretty flat-chested, and I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that I started to think that maybe my boobs overheard me... and were just like, 'You know what? We're sick of this. Let's kill her.'"
"People love to make comedians out to be miserable, dark, twisted people. And I just - I think a lot of people struggle with depression and mental illness and have issues and problems within their family. The mailman has it. Your neighbor has it. It's just that comedians have a microphone."
"In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone. There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware."
