All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.

If you want to be happy, be.

Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.