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.

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.

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

When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.

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

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.