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.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.