It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."

I've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.

I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.