Quotes from Katey Sagal

I think we respond well when we do something well.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

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.

I was kind of lost for several years.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I love interpreting other people's music.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.

I love to play gigs.

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 this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

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.

I really like sort of disappearing.

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.