The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.

I feel like I can't really have a comment.