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

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.

It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.