I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent.

I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.

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.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

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.