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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

I lived for 30 years in the U.S., but always kept my Islamic and Iranian culture and customs... even now, western lifestyle feels strange to me.

I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.

I come from a multicultural family.

I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.

In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.