I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.