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

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.

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'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.