Our show is about starting over.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

I was the star of the choir.

All things just keep getting better.

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

I have no apologies.

I like bringing smiles to people's faces.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience.

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.

I'm more of a culture hummingbird.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

I consider myself gay because at the end of the night, that's who I want to cuddle with. But when I go out, I go to straight clubs.

I've done the gay, over-the-top guy. I want to jump into another show where I wear pants for the majority of the time.

Our show is about starting over.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

I was raised thinking Id burn in hell for being gay but I didnt have a choice. Its just who I am.

Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.

As I've gotten older, I've realized my true models are my parents. My mom is like a sheroe. My dad is so strong.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.

The Egyptian FA have tried to persuade me to play for them, but all I'm dreaming about is the blue jersey.

I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.

I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

Danger is ever present in life more for some than others.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

Where there is love there is pain.

When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that's what got me into music in the first place.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.