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.

Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.

Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.

When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.

You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.