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 think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

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

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.

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

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

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.