I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.