When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.'

I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.