Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

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

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

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

I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who come back here from the United States and are Cambodian also write from their American references - looking inside the old culture, and looking at themselves as an American looking into the country where they were born.

I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.