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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.
At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.
When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.
First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.
You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.
People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.
When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress.
When Complex hired me, originally I wasn't at First We Feast, I was just like a hired hand for Complex. They'd send me out to different events or they'd have people visiting the office and I'd do interviews with athletes, musicians, whoever.