Katey Sagal

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

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 never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

I've never played a character that would sing.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

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.

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

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

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 have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

I don't take story input from fans.

I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

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 love interpreting other people's music.

I love to play gigs.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

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

I have this whole new audience now.

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

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.

'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

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.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

I really like sort of disappearing.

I was very rebellious.

It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

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.

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

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

I don't like violence.

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.

I think we respond well when we do something well.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

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

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