I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

You really have to have a goal.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.