My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
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My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' whether it's them learning how to make an easy weekday dinner or starting their own business.
I want to show America who I am and inspire young kids.
I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!
I struck upon this kind of crazy idea that I was going to go to New York and stop 10,000 people on the streets and take their portrait and create kind of a photographic census of the city.
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
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