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.

Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

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.

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.