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There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.