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 I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

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've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.