It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

I am invisible in gay bars.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.