Everything matters. Time is precious.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Can't Live with you and I Cannot Live without you

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is

Find out what people want and help them get it.

My rocking out didn't make me particularly popular with the boys or girls. It wasn't cute or feminine. I was more of a...weirdo.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.