As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.

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.

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

When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.