Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.

We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.

You know what happens to people who lie. They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again.

I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.

Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with.

The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.