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

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.

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

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

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

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

Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her husband was killed after the Khmer Rouge. There are different periods in which violence has occurred, and differences in how these women became widowed and how they survived afterwards.