There’s a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
I’m not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.
I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, ‘You have to lose weight or you’ll lose that job.’
I mean, what’s great about touring is that’s what you do. You’re in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That’s the only responsibility that you have.
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you’ll be punished and labeled.
Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.
The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they’re kind of like my family now. I’m always excited to come back to San Francisco.
When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you’re more willing to stand up and be counted.
I’m taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It’s very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.
I didn’t appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It’s never good to add to anybody else’s suffering. It’s an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of – dealing with dignity.
That’s part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.
I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn’t exist, because I hated myself so much.
I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.
I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.
I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don’t.
I’m lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.
I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.
I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.
I am star-struck but also I’ve known a lot of people for a long time. Like I’m super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I’ve known them for 17 years. So it’s kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!