Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

When I perform I'm very extroverted and I wear my heart on my sleeve and some people don't like that. They're embarrassed for me.

All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.