I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

My worst quality is impatience.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.