Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

You can't move forward until you look back.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.