I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

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.

Being as restless as I am by nature, I couldn't simply just be on set, wait for my turn to rehearse for the week. And I kept reading, but it wasn't enough for me.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.