The thing is that it's always a constant reminder of how violent this country has been, always has been, you know. I'm still frustrated with these conversations: [Barack] Obama is black so that means this, that things are better, or it means that you voted for him because he's black.

I've written a little bit in Germany.

Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.

I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .

I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.