I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it.

I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that.

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 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.