People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.