A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

knowledge of who we are helps us to be focus on our destiny

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

My greatest fear is failure.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.

You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.