When I was a senior in college, I attended an inspiring conference at West Point called the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs, which paired political science majors with cadets in the hopes of building future civilian-military relationships.
Addressing politics in my music' is such a phrase, a sentence on paper, that I hate. That's not really me because at the end of the day, I wasn't a political science major and I wasn't educated in that sense so I hate when people talk about things they don't know anything about.
In political science, public support doesn't have a reverse gear. It always goes forward.
I did graduate early and even received my master's degree in political science before I turned 22.
People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?
My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.
For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.
I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.
