I expect if people have had a problem with me or my attitude, then they come and take it directly with me, face to face.
'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.
In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook. And it's like, 'Let's set something up! I want to meet face-to-face.' And 'Take Me' was about, 'Are you going to take me out? Do I have to be the first person to make the move?'
Typically, I would run away from conflict and write about it - that was easier than staying and dealing face-to-face with humans; that's terrifying for me.
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.
The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.
I find that with dance - and with the arts in general - because I want to grow in my performance, I have to come face to face with my own personal challenges.
As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren't going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it's only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person's life.
My resonance to Magneto and Xavier was borne more out of the Holocaust. It was coming face to face with evil, and how do you respond to it? In Magneto's case it was violence begets violence. In Xavier's it was the constant attempt to find a better way.
