I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.