I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.

Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.

Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But it was this heartache that pushed me to explore other artistic avenues, like writing and filmmaking, and I ultimately feel most at home in a multidisciplinary environment.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.

As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.