I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing. – Janelle Monae
What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them. – Joel Edgerton
I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland. – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London. – Jim Crace
My solo music – I get up onstage, I improvise and it’s my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we’re improvising together. Then it’s not my music; it’s our music. – John Zorn
I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get. – Aisha Tyler
My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo shows up in ‘Up.’ – Bob Peterson
The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They’re setting up colleges. They’re setting up universities. They’re setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from. – Azim Premji
One of the weird things about Hollywood is we’re all imposters; we’re all just glammed up. – James McAvoy
I’ve always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there. – Blake Michael
