It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to be indifferent to the simple mention of either group. We're two insightful people looking for reasons to love ourselves; and let's not forget we both love pork and wear sandals with socks.

If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there .

Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying psychology I had a professor and a friend who would talk about "process" all the time. Your process, his process, the group's process. There's some carryover from that discussion to my creative work.

In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.