The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.