Katey Sagal Quotes (28 Quotes)


    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.

    And you know, my schedule on television - actually my schedule with my kids is the real - is the one that I'm mostly married to. So I have a fun time.

    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.

    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.


    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.

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

    I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

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

    Now I'm both. I'm an actor and a singer.


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

    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.

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

    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.

    I think we respond well when we do something well.

    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.

    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.

    And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

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

    I was, I'm 5'9 now. By the time I was in seventh grade I was 5'7 and all the guys, the little boys, were coming up to my waist.


    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.

    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.

    I think because of my music background actually I have sort of - comedy is about time and rhythm. And I sort of naturally fell towards comedy.

    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.



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