I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

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 always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.

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.

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

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."