Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.