It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.