I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.