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

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

I've never been to China. I only know what the West is telling me about China.

This has always been my problem with genres is that they've turned into marketing tools. I've never been a person that allows themselves to be in any kind of box and I think that genres can be used as tools to define BPM or something but I think they're suffocating of music and other art. And I think they're inaccurate when they come to describing my work. Maybe other people like defining it, but I don't.

I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.

The first question [American college kids] asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.

I only have a Bachelor's Degree but I've had professors who have instilled this kind of academic rigor in me where I don't make any generalizations or closed statements. There always has to be room for interpretation.