Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Life is sweet, life is also very short.
I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.