I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

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.

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.