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.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.

I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

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.

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.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

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.

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

I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, What do you want to be when you grow up? I said, A comedian. And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper--all your choices should be so easy.

Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.