I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.

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.

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 just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

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

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.