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

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

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.

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America...

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.