Who do you think was the better cook: MLK or Malcolm? And why?

Neither could cook well, they were too busy getting shot.

Who would you rather have as your boss at a McDonalds: George W or John Kerry?

Dubya, cause he'd let me eat as many freedom fries as I damn well please.

What sex would you like to be reincarnated as?

As an early 80s feminist, I'm obligated to say female. Still, if I were allowed to remember what happened this time around, I'd stick with male.

You are discussing the music of Prince with Buddha, Jesus and Mohamed. Which of them turns out to be the biggest Prince fan and why?

They might like him more for speaking gently, than for his music.

Why are you a musician?

At first, because it was magical. Later, because growing up seemed so awful.

You wake up severely hungover in a las vegas hotel room with no memory of the previous night to find yourself clutching a whip and situated in bed between a snoring clarence thomas (wearing nothing but a white leather mini skirt and fishnets) and condoleeza rice in a catwoman suit. What are the first words out of your mouth?

You guys got that, right?

You are running for president in 2008. What is your campaign slogan?

KILL WHITEY

What, if anything, do you have in common with Youth?

I have to do everything my own way, but it works out barely half of the time.

If you could feel in everyday life the way you do when you're making music would you still make music? And why?

No, because it's the escape, the high, of music that contrasts it with the ordinary.If that's how I felt all the time, I'd have to start experiencing LA freeway traffic as joyful.

La Liz was fond of having her favorite chili sent from a Beverly Hills restaurant to wherever she happened to be working in the world. If you had it like that, (and who says you don't?) what transnational or transcontinental craving would you have satisfied during PS's run?

I don't understand that crap.
Well, OK... Carne A La Tampiquena from Las Fuentes in Reseda, CA.

What did you like most about being in Berkeley?

The folks at Berkeley Rep are nice and there are still some good bookshops in the area.

It is the future and the borough of Queens has been given over exclusively to women. Men, while not allowed to live or work there, are allowed 24 hour visitor passports as well as weekend passes - but at a very high cost. To the women: do you think you'd wanna live there? To the men: how often do you think you'd visit?

Can I call instead?

While browsing thru the Schomburg library you happen upon an undiscovered letter in which Frederick Douglas outs himself as a huge leather queen. According to the letter, he and Honest Abe spent a memorable weekend once in a cozy log cabin. Do you go public with this finding?

Sure, nobody knows who Frederick Douglas was. Don't you watch Leno? People barely know who Abraham Lincoln was. Fox News would ignore it and NPR would spin it as 'interesting'.

Why is it when you ask artists what they would do if they couldn't do art they usually say "teach"?

Because they have such a high opinion of their own insights.

Which character in Passing Strange would you like to sit next to on a long plane ride? Which would you not like to sit next to? And why.

Any of them would be amusing, but I'd sit next to the bass player. She seems relaxed and cool.