I get called "ISIS" now. Why don't we have a name-and-shame weapons dealership website? Instead, we're like, "Oh my God, are you really talking about the refugees again, making yourself into a caricature?" And it's like, "Until you stop the person in your country who's making billions of dollars from selling weapons, yeah, I have to talk about refugees." Whatever I say will get twisted or messed with.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.