I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
Once people start to realise that colour is just that, it's just a colour, then things got a bit smoother.
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
The pressure from within used to have an impact on my behaviour. If games had gone badly, I would take things home with me. I'd be snappy at my kids and felt constantly wound up.
'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.
You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
With me being an artist that took over a decade to get on, there's so many different things that I have in common with artists that's struggling to get on.
I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.
As we get further into our career we're figuring out how to become more efficient as artists, and doing so many different things is testament to our cohesiveness as the Roots.
With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.
There's so many different things that you can physically change for a character.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
There are so many opportunities to learn things online, like between Coursera and Khan Academy and Duolingo. There are these awesome websites that are kind of these little personal Aristotles. There are times when I'm preparing for a role of some kind, and then I'll focus on a certain subject.
I saw so many opportunities in the U.S. because I knew that I could make a living doing things I could never do in Romania.
Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.
It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.
In the '90s, I kind of put aside all those things I loved in the '80s and I got really into watching foreign films and art films and stuff like that, and sort of soaking those up.
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.
