The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars.

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China or Turkey or Indonesia, India doesn't mow down its people. It doesn't kill people who are refusing to move. It just waits it out. It continues to do what it has to do and ignores the consequences.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them.