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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

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I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The first thing I do in the morning is take my vitamins. I don't want to say which vitamins; I don't think you should push what you believe in. Doctors should do that, not fashion designers.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.

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