Phoebe Robinson Quotes

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time.

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.

I love Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel.

I grew up watching 'The Tonight Show' and Jimmy Fallon on 'SNL.'

Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

It used to be that if you got on 'The Tonight Show,' your career was made. Now, if you're on 'The Tonight Show,' maybe 14 more people show up to your gig in Tulsa.

The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately... Privately, hell, I'm with them for life, and I love these people. They're my second family.

Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.

When 'Sex and the City' aired its first season, people didn't know about HBO as a place for original series. People weren't saying, 'Oh I've got to watch 'Sex and the City'!' They found it later. In some ways, it helped change what people thought of HBO.

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

I have the person at home, the person who has his privacy, too. Michael Jackson didn't do the moonwalk in his kitchen.

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

The next step for me is not 'The Tonight Show.' That's a job for Jimmy Fallon. I'm way too divisive for a show like that.

The show was that we were sexy lifeguards. Clearly, the suits were probably five sizes too small and all of that, but it was just part of what it was, and that's why it was so popular.