There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.

The Prescott fight made me change from a boy to a man: it took me out of my comfort zone because when you lose a fight, you look at the mistakes and everything. That is what happened. I've changed from a boy to a man.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.