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

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

We live in ugly times.

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.