If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.
I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.
Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.
I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.
I really wasn't planning on being a solo artist.
Especially for my first album, I struggled with even the thought of being a solo artist.
As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.
Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.
I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
