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.

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."

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.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.

People who are too uptight make me nervous.