The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

Moksha (Liberation) is to become free from gathering & dispersing of circumstances.

Eternity is the end of the end.

In that place things begin to wear away even as they are built

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.