If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

Anything Vince Clarke, whether it's Erasure, Yaz, or Depeche Mode. It's basically R&B with synths. It's very sexy music and perfect for gay sex.

Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful - but a victim is what I was. "Survivor" is the more healing way to look at it.

I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much.