A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

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.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

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

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.