I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

I'm actually very spiritual.

If I'm not writing a poem to decompress from my experiences on a movie set, I usually just cook and it's like meditative. Especially since I'm at the stage now where I don't really use measuring cups. Kind of instinctual, I just kind of prepare my own dishes as I go along.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.