We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.