I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back...it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.