Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

My parents didn't really restrict my movement, so I got involved in the underground music scene and the activism scene; I was doing some volunteering in food relief. I spent a lot of time throughout the city in poor areas, even though my family lived in a wealthy area.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more committed in their resistance to authoritarian government, and also, not surprisingly, committed to safeguarding their culture and heritage as something distinct and worth preserving.