I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

I'm trying to get out of my own way

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.