A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.