One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.
I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.
I don't have issues around how I'm identified.
I'm a geek to the bone.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.
If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.
I wouldn't describe myself as an activist.
I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
I'm not an actress. I'm a writer.
I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.
I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
I call myself a nerd all the time.
I'm a geek, man.
I don't consider myself a nerd.
I'm not a list person.
I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.
I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
I call myself 'Christ-leaning,' but that's primarily psychological.
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.
I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.
I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.
I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.
