A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction

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 you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

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

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.

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

People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.