I Was A Full Foot

And To Be Different Is Great. You Don't Want To Be The Same.

May I Say, If You Were Suddenly Put Into A Woman's Body, Wouldn't You Be Slightly Interested In Your Breasts, And Why People Look At Certain Parts Of You, And Why Certain Parts Move Like They Do?

I Think It Became Blurry Because I Grew Up In A Very Private Family. I Mixed Privacy And Secrecy Up Somewhere Along The Line. Everything Became A Secret, And I Thought That Was How You Should Live. Lying About Everything. The Mask I Put On As A Kid To Survive Was The Funny Lady. Then The Funny Person All Of A Sudden Became Harder To Do Without Substances. Substances Let Me Keep The Mask On Longer. Until It Doesn't Work Anymore And You're Just A Mess.

My Way Was Not To Be The Petite, Gorgeous, Little Cheerleader. My Way Of Getting By Was Making People Laugh.

Onstage, I Was Never The Ingenue.