When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.