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I don't have to try to be outrageous. I am outrageous.

You never want to just be outrageous for outrageous' sake 'cause then it doesn't work, and it's not believable. You want to be as true to whatever character you're playing.

I don't want to offend people.

I know that if I say something that's considered outrageous, a group will take it, create an email blast, and use me to raise money or to do whatever, to build their profile.

I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.

I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.