I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

I spent much of my life hiding.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.