As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.

If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went.

In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again.

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

In the water I am beautiful.

All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

It's better to be pissed off than pissed on.