I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

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

I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.

I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.