My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'
It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.
And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.
I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.
It takes nothing to encourage an artist.
If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.