There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.