Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

Body odor is the window to the soul.

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

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

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

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