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"Katie Couric: Do you get nervous when you interview people who conduct interviews for a living? I&amp;amp;#8217;m a little nervous because you&amp;amp;#8217;re so good at asking questions. Ellen DeGeneres: I am? Thanks. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer, so no. KC: I was lucky enough to be in the show today. You thanked the audience&amp;amp;#8212;you really said it from your heart. Why do you do that? ED: Because most people don&amp;amp;#8217;t live this way. They don&amp;amp;#8217;t get to laugh, be free, dance, be surrounded by this energy. It&amp;amp;#8217;s important to remind people to take that home. I want the world to start shifting [to] a more positive energy. KC: Do you find it disconcerting that there seems to be so much vitriol in society today? ED: I try not to take it in. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s take an example: someone who&amp;amp;#8217;s antigay, who despises who I am. If I hate that person, I&amp;amp;#8217;m the same as them. Some people are closed and angry. If I can help shift that by just being who I am, great&amp;amp;#8212;and if not, that&amp;amp;#8217;s not my job. KC: Do you feel like you are still fighting misconceptions? That Time cover [&amp;amp;#8220;Yep, I&amp;amp;#8217;m Gay&amp;amp;#8221;] was quite a while ago, April 1997. I remember that was the month my husband was diagnosed with cancer. What can be done to encourage people to be tolerant? ED: More examples on the air of all kinds of different lifestyles&amp;amp;#8230;. I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s generational, but also it&amp;amp;#8217;s someone willing to open their minds and say, &amp;amp;#8220;I don&amp;amp;#8217;t understand it, but that&amp;amp;#8217;s their life.&amp;amp;#8221; KC: Do you think gay marriage will receive national acceptance in your lifetime? ED: Absolutely. It wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t that long ago that women or black people didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have the right to vote or interracial marriage [was illegal]. KC: You&amp;amp;#8217;re a great role model, because you&amp;amp;#8217;ve stayed true to yourself. What advice would you give young women? ED: Find out who you are and be that person. That&amp;amp;#8217;s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come. KC: Have you and Portia thought about having a family? ED: We have a family. She has a mom; I have a mother and a brother. KC: Have you thought about having children? ED: Oh, that. KC: Sorry&amp;amp;#8212;do you hate being asked that question? ED: No, no. Of course we thought about it. But we are lucky enough to be so in love, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want a baby. I like having all of her, and she likes having all of me. KC: Let&amp;amp;#8217;s talk about American Idol. Will you have a hard time being brutally honest? ED: I won&amp;amp;#8217;t have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won&amp;amp;#8217;t be mean. You don&amp;amp;#8217;t have to be mean to be honest. KC: You&amp;amp;#8217;re a vegan&amp;amp;#8212;you eat no meat, no eggs, no dairy. What changed in you? ED: I watched a documentary, Earthlings. It&amp;amp;#8217;s inside footage of factory farms; 50 billion animals a year are killed. They&amp;amp;#8217;re in pain, treated badly, diseased, pumped full of antibiotics. I saw the reality and just couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t ignore it. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m healthier and happier. KC: You&amp;amp;#8217;ve made body image a topic on your show. Does it bother you that women are so obsessed with their bodies? ED: Yeah. We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy. KC: We&amp;amp;#8217;ve had these conversations as a society since I was a little kid. It never seems to change. ED: It&amp;amp;#8217;s really depressing. When we have more people in power to put the right kind of images on television to reflect what people look like, it will all start shifting. But there has to be a tipping point, and we&amp;amp;#8217;re not at that tipping point yet. KC: Here&amp;amp;#8217;s a Glamour reader question. Another Ellen wanted me to ask you, &amp;amp;#8220;So many people are losing their jobs these days, myself included. What has your biggest career obstacle been, and how did you overcome it?&amp;amp;#8221; ED: My biggest obstacle was losing my entire career when I came out. That lasted for three years. At first I was angry and went through a major depression. It&amp;amp;#8217;s also when I started really searching and finding out who I was. I started over again, doing stand-up, and built myself back. Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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