The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Success takes many forms. Most people strive for something unattainable without realizing that it's already theirs.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.