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

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

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

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

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

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it