Nobody even thought that I would be here.
Then I got out of it, and all I thought about was how blessed I am. I’m sure you felt that when your album, Montero, didn’t go No. I know a lot of people see that as a bad thing, but people have to work harder to stay in this place. I feel like it’s knocking down the walls. Why do you think it does? Because there’s a new age of celebrities, and I don’t think a lot of people are comfortable with it. What’s wrong with “influencer,” though? Why does influencer have such a bad connotation?
On the internet, they call me an “influencer playwright,” and that’s their way of diminishing me and what I do. Because part of the reason my play Slave Play got so popular was because I worked outside of the normal bounds of what people do in the theater.
