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

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.

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'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.

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 think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.