I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo culture by Alix Lambert called The Mark of Cain. We've done books from Twilight of Empire, that actually has forewords by Howard Zinn and Dennis Kucinich and others, to books of poetry, photography, painting - all kinds of books.

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."