I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion.

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

I do longer runs on things, a lot stories. I really like one-liners, I like a lot of different kinds of standup but I've always been long-winded.

I stopped drinking when I was 23. I kind of started when I was 13, so it was a 10-year run. But I just became a bad, annoying drunk child, so when I stopped, I'd done a lot of things I wasn't proud of.

Excuse me: I am homeless. I am gay. I have AIDS. I'm new in town.