I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.

Each person has a literature inside them.

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

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.