Jose Gonzalez

I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.