I love travel and I love learning new languages and learning about new cultures. It has a huge impact not only on who I am, but also on my work — maybe in an indirect way. But when all you see is your immediate surroundings, your sense of what’s possible is severely limited. As you push out from the center of that world and explore worlds beyond, your sense of what is possible for your own life grows exponentially. So, as you become a citizen of the world and you move out and explore other cultures and other countries, you begin to understand that there’s all this possibility that exists in the world for you as well as everyone else. That’s a great thing, and I think it’s a gift to give any young person. I hope some sense of that open possibility finds its way into my work.
