It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.