“Poor man. There is such a sickness there. It’s so patently obvious that there is a psychosis there. I don’t know what his original thing about me was. I have no idea. ... Obviously, hiding his homosexuality – talk about festering and not living the truth of your life and feeling badly about yourself – and being fearful somebody would find out about this terrible, terrible secret, so he thought. Finally at the age of, I think, 70, he decides to come out of the closet and say, ‘I’m gay.’ Like, who cares? Be gay. Don’t be gay. That’s up to you, George.”

“I don’t know what people are scared of. Maybe they think their children will be influenced (by same-sex marriage), but I’ve got to tell you, I was raised by two heterosexuals. Everywhere I looked – heterosexuals. And they did not influence me.”

“I think the more visible we are, the more difficult it is for people to be prejudiced, and it just spreads; it’s going to spread like a good virus around the world. Unfortunately there are still countries in this world where homosexuality is punishable by death and there’s dozens of them that can put you in jail and will put you in jail. So we’ve got a long way to go. Here we are complaining that you can’t get married, and if you’re in Nigeria they’ll hack you to death. So there’s still a long ways to go. The easiest way to support it is to be out and be active here.”