It’s depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
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.
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.
The live show is different from the album. It’s different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.
New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.
Onstage, I’m still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I’m not that big.
It’s nobody’s business how you do something.
I am still comfortable with my body, because I’m like, What’s not to be comfortable with? I mean, it’s just my nature.
Once you’re heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don’t need to take out an announcement every day.
The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire.
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 think there are always different times in your life when you go, “Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier.” But then you get through that, and you go, “Well, I’m not.”
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.
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.
It’s usually a spiritual thing that’s preventing somebody from having happiness.
I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody’s trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that’s subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.
I’m somebody who can absorb a lot.
I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.
I didn’t belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.
Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can’t be. There are too many variables in life.