There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with.

I'm sure that a lot of my friends - even though they're curious about the music of nations that are not on their radar - still don't know what Kuwaiti music sounds like.

If you've ever seen album covers for Arab female pop stars, it looks like the designer was paid five dollars to make them, and the extreme femaleness is astounding.

There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of achievement for making it through society. It's cementing allegiance to authority at a very young age.

I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.

I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.

My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.