I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

'Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.