Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Only the Prince of Peace gives peace.

I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that's why I've never done a session where I don't sing live.

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

You have to take a leap of faith to realize a dream, and this is something that a lot of people aren't willing to do.

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.