Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.