Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.

There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

I spent a lot time with my siblings because there weren't too many young people on our block. We were our own best friends: making dances to a Stevie Wonder songs and singing with my mom.

That time, making 'Disco Pigs,' was kind of the most important period of my life. The people I met there remain my closest friends.