Amy Ray
"About 10 years ago I started writing songs and putting them in a pile and filing them away in my mind..."

Greg Alsop
"People are a lot less interested in bands that sound timid, cute, or precious."

Boy George
"It’s almost come full-circle back to the beginning when there weren’t massive budgets and you had to be a bit more creative. I think that’s exciting."

Nick Frost

Matthew Rhys
"I’ve been incredibly lucky to do theater, film, and television in a relatively circular career, whereby I’m never getting bored because I’m always doing something different relatively soon."

Mark Pino
"By far, the biggest challenge is to maintain the style and charm of this iconic event, while putting my personal spin on it."

Vera Farmiga
"For me the name of the game is to present to you a woman who lives every day in the trenches of maternity."

Nikki Levy
"I wanted to start a show where I could take writers and performers whom I thought were brilliant, help them develop their work, and get them seen and discovered."

Maria Menounos
"I think it’s nice to see someone who made it in this town and stayed in the same relationship they came in with."

Joe Gauthreaux
"The great thing about club music is that it helps you escape what is going on in the world."

Bill Cruz
"At a queer event, there is a community of shared knowledge that a queer crowd would already know."

Stephen Wallem
"I can’t imagine ever giving up theater; it’s been a part of who I am since I was eight years old."

George Lopez
"Yes, the stand-up has been a tremendous wealth of a place to take personal experiences and bring humor to them."

Gary Gangi
"The beard does one thing now that has not been done in the past in terms of determining sex appeal: it makes attractiveness focus on a person's face."

Eric Charles May
"For me, I didn’t feel like I was writing against anything, but I wanted to make sure that these characters, like all the other characters, are seen in the full width and breadth of their humanity."

Andy O'Reilly
"It is a very high energy show so we all have to make sure we are on the top of our game."

Steve Grand
"I get to wake up every day and do something that I love. For that, I feel so blessed, so humbled."

Scott Malinowski
"Playing music is such an immersive thing, I feel such a strong sense of flow and satisfaction blasting out high notes with a roaring jazz band."

Laura Doherty
"I’m out and proud and all that stuff."

Courtney Act
"I thought that drag queens lip sync because that is what they do, not because they can't sing."

David Ernesto Munar
"It’s my calling to work to better the lives of people affected by HIV. That’s who I am, and that who I’m going to be at Howard Brown."

Hannah Aitchison
"The popularity of tattoos have grown so much."

Thomas Lauderdale

Trannika Rex
"I've gotten my share of hate mail, but it's under a pile of love letters so I'm OK with that."