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

We hung out a lot together. We went and saw films together. It was really actually quite easy. I think we were all very subconsciously connected in knowing that we needed to make it important, and therefore it just became important and it worked. Everybody had a lot of respect for each other. I think respect is the most important thing you can have.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

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

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

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

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.