[on The Philippines:] ... Eighty Dialects And

I Also Identify As A Latin Person, A Person Who Has Latin Blood.

Adaptability Is The Simple Secret Of Survival.

We Didn't Have Television Until I Was About Eight Years Old, So It Was Either The Movies Or Radio. A Lot Of Radio Drama. That Was Our Television, You Know. We Had To Use Our Imagination. So It Was Really Those Two Things, And The Comics, That I Immersed Myself In As A Child.

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'm Preparing For A Multimedia Theater Piece, Airport Music, That's Coming Up In New York City.