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

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.

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.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark."

Part of our business is that you read interviews with these people and they don't really talk candidly about what's going on and the struggle - the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you're supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.