I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.
I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
