It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.