Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

I'm glad I finished the cycle [of plays],

I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.

Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.