I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, long time.

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.

I'm doing all these interviews with the British press, the Italian press, and others. They all want to talk about this stuff. I don't have a stance; I don't have a go-to thing to say about any of this.

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

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.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.