I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?

I think that I am working to remind myself that it's still my life... you have to enjoy yourself.

I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.

Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.

I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.'

I was like a fat, sweaty kid growing up in Queens who just was plopped down in front of 'Entertainment Tonight' by my parents.

The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.

Everyone's life experience is different.

I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.

I had about five years as a gay guy in New York after college before the whole Grindr explosion happened, where people were still going out to meet each other.

'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.

When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.

Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of annoying because there isn't one.

Our new vice president, Mike Pence, is one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT politicians in the country, and most, if not all, of Trump's cabinet is anti LGBT equality as well.

We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.

I just worship Madonna. As, like, a young gay kid growing up in the '80s and '90s... I was at the Blond Ambition tour with my parents vogue-ing up in the mezzanine at the Nassau Coliseum.

'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.

I just love Stephen Colbert. He's a genius.