I Don't Think Crack Happened By Accident.

Classical Music Requires An Immense Amount Of Concentration, And I Don't Know If I Would've Been That Committed To That Particular Life.

I'm Not One Of Those People Who's So Blinded By My Own Work And My Sweat. It's Kind Of Risky Writing A Memoir When You're Really Part Of A Larger Universe.

I'm A 24-hour Tweet Machine, I'm A 24-hour Blogger. When There's No Pressure On Me, I Can Talk And Write And Lecture With The Best Of Them. But Put A Deadline On Me And I Start Getting Writer's Block.

Resistance Here Doesn't Mean Revolution. It Doesn't Mean Storming The Barricades. Resistance Means Using Art For The Things That It Does Best, Which Is To Create Human Portraits And Communicate Ideas And Forge A Climate Where People Of Different Races Or Classes Are Known To You Because They Make Themselves Known. In The Simplest Terms, Art Humanizes. It Opens The Circuit Of Empathy. And Once That Process Happens, It's That Much Harder To Think Of People As Part Of A Policy Or A Statistic. Art Reverses The Alienation That Can Creep Into Society.

I Love Traveling The States No Matter What. I Love Traveling Abroad, Going To Japan And Australia. I Love It. I Never Get Tired Of It.