Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.