Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book coming into the world. It's an expressly loaded subject, one on which you can't win.

I'm just very interested, fascinated, heartbroken, obsessed with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and our need to find peace on that front... Everyone's always, like, victim and avenger at the same time.

I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I can go and do it.

I'd say that in place of a singular phobic-level terror, I keep a whole collection of running, yet manageable, fears.

I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.

You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.

I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.