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.

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 would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.

I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

My family wasn't the Brady Bunch. They were the Broody Bunch.