Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.