I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.

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.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.