When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.

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

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.

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

When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.

I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.