“I don’t have a partner, no. I’m not interested in just having a boyfriend anymore, and a partner isn’t something you can just pluck out of a nightclub. When it’s supposed to happen, it will happen. I’m learning to live in acceptance of what is. I’ve spent a lot of my life not doing that. It’s an abundant universe with enough love for everyone. Too often, we operate on the ‘scarcity model,’ the theory that there’s not enough love to go around. That causes people to go out in bars hunting for it rather than trust that it’s there.”

“If it were not for the gay and lesbian community, I would really not have half the career I’ve had. Throughout the lows in my career, this community remained loyal, remained faithful, didn’t care whether I had a hit record or not. This community supported me, this community fed me and paid my mortgage by letting me sing in the clubs at three, four o’clock in the morning, by just letting me support myself and not become a humiliating story on E!”

“In our very first season ... I was embarrassed to have Jack at my gym, and I actually called him a fag. That happens so often in the gay community, this sort of self-loathing, because most gay men have a kind of self-loathing imposed on them by society. Even within the community there tends to be a lot of infighting for that reason. You know, the more conservative-type ones, the Will-types, are embarrassed by the drag queens and the drag queens are embarrassed by the Log Cabin boys.”