Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.

I think the gay community, as a whole, is slighted by high-profile figures who remain in the closet. But I think that a lot of times we need to ask ourselves what that person's role in our community would be if they were out of the closet.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.

I think for gay people to see gay people living honestly about everything they do is really a contribution.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.