What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.