One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

Perhaps the community you mentioned might not come to the story. Sometimes you have to take the story to them, and perform it, and that's another way that I get an alternate point of view that isn't the official version of history out to a community. I feel that's what I've been doing since Caramelo.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.