I am not a diva: I am a Jones. 'Diva' is so overused. Diva, icons, the whole thing, legends... To be a diva, what is that?
In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
To carry our cross is to have such a commitment and identify with Jesus Christ and what He accomplished that I am willing to suffer the repercussions to that identification.
I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.
I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.
Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me. I think it also helps the audience when I am speaking in a language that is non-elite, so to say, as my stories are also from that perspective.
People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.
I am not a big fan of Mike Tyson. I almost idolized him for what he did in the ring - he was such a great fighter. But his behavior out of the ring... he needed to realize he was in the public eye, and there is a responsibility.
Iggy Pop is legendary - he is awesome - and I am a massive Bruce Springsteen fan. His song 'Cautious Man' is my favourite song. It's really poignant, dark, and moody, like myself.
I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
There's nothing illogical, it seems to me, about saying, 'I am going to care deeply about my work and my writing. I'm also going to care deeply about my family and my child.'
