I continue to explore poetry.

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

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

I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

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 don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.