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

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.