My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
Gay is when two girls get together, dance and have fun.
[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.
In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and laugh, there is a possibility of improvement, and a possibility of change. I think humor sneaks up on people, and before you know it, you're laughing at something you might not agree with.
I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.
