If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America.

Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.