This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that freedom does not exist in the rest of the world and not even in the rest of our country. There are places where they are going backward, away from freedom. Places where same-sex couples are beaten, killed, not allowed to raise families, forced to hide their lifestyle.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.

When we are adding to those around us, the world, ourselves, it feels good and right on levels we cannot even consciously connect with.

This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.