My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

While a lot of my day, like most people's, is spent thinking about me, I can see how it's a universal thing: the competition, the clashes of personality that fuel the world and fill the world, are the exact same ones that take place just between two people. I just think politics is a form, en masse, of human relations.

I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track. I like my music to be very musical.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?