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

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

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

Even though I'm not privileged in the money world, I'm privileged in other ways: I had greater access to education, I can travel, etc. It's the same with writing: the freedom to move in and out of different places, of different realms of existence, of different life forms.

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

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

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.