The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

Art and politics have many things in common.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between.

All I look for is good quality stuff. Whatever I read, if I like it, then I want to do it. It's as simple as that. I don't have a master plan of, "I should do this genre, and then this."

My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

Nobody should go through life without falling in love.