There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam."

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.