We do not ask those in traditional marriages to re-register their marriage in every jurisdiction to ensure legal recognition of their relationship. Nor should we ask those in same-sex relationships to do the same.

New York City has taken a much-needed step that we hope will be followed by other jurisdictions throughout the United States.

I think it's very hard in the modern world to segregate people's personal lives outside of the workday, particularly when workdays have gotten to be so long. People have life crises during the day. The human condition prevents us from so neatly excluding our private lives from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night. People simply function as full human beings.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

There was a concern at one moment. There was that small matter of a marriage in the middle of the recording process. We were still doing the tour, filming the special. There was a lot going on. He wasn't able to write the way he wanted to write until the end of that record. We were all kind of jumping.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.