People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I am - I'm thinking about writing a book about it called 'The Gregarious Recluse.' How the more that you put me out there in front of audiences, the more that when I have down time I have to disappear.

I was always the class clown. I was always the funny one.

I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.

In my day there was no one to tell me anything and I feel I have a responsibility to help a new generation. A lady in Atlanta came up to me and said: 'Honey, you are a ministry.' It is about the knowledge I can give others. I think gays will look after their own.

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.

I don't know why all three, my comedic idols are... women.

I'm not Kathy Griffin. I can't do 1200 seat venues. I need 300, 400 something like that.

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.

I grew up in Chattanooga.

All my boyfriends are in their 20s.