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.

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.

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.

Without art there is no hope.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.