Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

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.

Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.

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

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.

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

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.