Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.