I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

I feel like I got my first real taste of Caribbean and Cuban culture while I was there. I have quite a sizeable Cuban vinyl collection from Miami thrift stores.

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.

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

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

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