I was very rebellious.
— Katey Sagal
You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
I love to play gigs.
I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.
I've never played a character that would sing.
Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.
I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
I was kind of lost for several years.
And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
I really like sort of disappearing.
'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.
I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
You realize mortality is everywhere.
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
I made a living being a background singer for years.
I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
I don't like violence.
I don't take story input from fans.
You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
I do a lot of writing about my family.
And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
My parents were very artistic, but busy.
I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
I have this whole new audience now.
I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
I love interpreting other people's music.
I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
I love TV.
I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.
I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
