I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

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

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.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to survive.

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.