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

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.

How far can we go? How much can we absorb and still have some peace of mind?

I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

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.

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.