I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.