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I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.

Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.