Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

Our whole society is instantaneous.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.