"I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from."

“I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com

“Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings, and help them build reserves for a rainy day.”

Source : "Banking on Savings for the Poor" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2010.

“People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has been permanently sealed. It had been releasing methane and other pollutants into the air for four months. Thousands of people have complained of respiratory illnesses and other problems.”

Source : "Residents Return Home After Workers Cap Leaking Gas Well In Los Angeles". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

“True love is unconditional. And if it is a 'Conditions Apply' scenari, then it isn't true love. It is as good as a mutual fund...”

“A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.”

“I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.”

“There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.”

“I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.”