After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out there that you felt and that meant something to you, and that it could be interpreted by many different people to mean many different things.

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

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

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

I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

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