Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all adored, like the younger befriends or reaches out to their hero, and for me, whenever you meet some younger person, who has a fire in their gut, a way of being in the world, it excites you.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.