There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I tried to be honest with myself in my relationship with God, Christ is, on the one hand, completely dark, he's transcendent and unknown. On the other hand, he is completely imminent and completely knowable as Jesus. Our tradition speaks of him in both ways as transcendent but also as a lover who comes to us, and the two word 'Dark One' seem to me to contain both things, the transcendence and otherness of Christ, but also like a kind of dark lover who comes to us.

If you're my bestfriend I shouldn't have to ask you to lie for me.

My brother tried to explain sex to me when I was 7 - and he did it with a cup.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It's not like it just happens.

I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff.

Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.