Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.