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

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

It's like you're organically developing yourself, moving out, metamorphosing into other forms depending on where you are, what you're doing at the time, how you want to play on things.

All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

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

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and education and ability and skills that some people may not be fortunate enough to acquire. But by sharing and inquiring, being a listener, and being interested in the stories of other people and their lives, I can also pull things out and say "What can I do for them? What can I share with them that may alleviate some of their suffering?"