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

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 tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.

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

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

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

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.