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Comedy was all I ever wanted.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.

I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.

Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.

Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.

You don't need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.

I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

I'm a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness - things like drag and raunchy comedy.

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

I'm always surprised when I get recognized.

I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

Why do Republicans hate gay marriage so much? They certainly don't hate gay prostitutes.

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.

It's like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else's story.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

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.

I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.

I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them.

The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.

All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex.

Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

Anything Vince Clarke, whether it's Erasure, Yaz, or Depeche Mode. It's basically R&B with synths. It's very sexy music and perfect for gay sex.

If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'

I don't like catchphrases either. A current one would be, "Bye, Felicia." It's used so much that we don't even know the origin anymore.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!

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.

You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.

I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

Sex in general, for me, is a lot of different aspects of humanity, not just my relationships. It's my relationship to myself and my body.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

If you have sex, it should be for you, not for the other person.

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.

I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

I love New York. I love working here.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT' -

My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

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.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.

I'm not playing the race card. I'm playing the rice card.

Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.

I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.

For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!