The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors, and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.

I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.