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.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.

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 don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.