If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

Go ahead and do what you're doing.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree.

The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck

God is the Father of light.

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.