My mother has a lot of sisters. They had very, very interesting conversations. Because I was a quiet child, I would sit in the room and listen to these stories. I think I developed a curiosity about the life of other people from that, and an interest in looking at what was lying beneath the layer of what people present in public.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

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