In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.
Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.
It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'
Anger is so constructive.
My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool abo...
Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy......
Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good tram...
There's something cool about being a stealth classic.
The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.