The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

I've worked with incredible producers who have also taken my voice and brought it to another level. I think I have some natural abilities, but it's the technique that I've been learning from the best that keeps me going. I'm really honored to do it.

I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.