My mom doesn't get the WHOLE gay THING, but she LOVES me.

My MOTHER THOUGHT me being GAY was a DEATH SENTENCE.

Just because you are out doesn't MAKE you the poster BOY for the GAY COMMUNITY.

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 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 don't MUCH care who is GAY or straight or married or not. I MOSTLY notice if they are BRAVE enough to confront bigotry.

I would rather be KNOWN as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be GAY,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from ARIZONA.'

I THOUGHT they were STARING at me because I was GAY. But it was because I was on the telly.

I knew that this was what I WANTED to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't GAY. That was the SUBSTANCE of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

A lot of gay men have a lot of SEX. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my BEDROOM. Promiscuity. That was of its day, REALLY.

I am not GAY, I just LIKE PEARLS.

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.