I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

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

For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that

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

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.