If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.