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 life is easier if you're straight.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.

The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.

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