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.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

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.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.