Loretta Lynn Quotes

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

I had to do a lot of dancing in 'Queens of Country.'

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

I'm helping country sound a little more country.

I just have fun on stage. There's nothing premolded out there. I try to always do something different.

One of the most positive takeaways I've had from 'SNL' is when we'd make videos back in the day: we'd just write material as we were inspired, and so, in a given year, we'd only put out two or three videos.

Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.

Shaft' is a great country song.

When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I like it when things suddenly affect the painting. I mix up this red and it affects the whole painting or this little bit of white falls down there, and something changes the whole nature of the thing. The residue on what happens, that's what's in the paintings.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

I like the inspiration of the first take.

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.