My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.