In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

I hear music as narrative.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.