My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.