It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.

My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.

I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.

People think I like to expose my body. But I don't. It's just because the dance moves require it.

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.