Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.

You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.