From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.

Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.

Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.