To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people

We all have our own closets to come out of

I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.