I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.

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.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.