I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.