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

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.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

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

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 think being a poet, period, is isolating.

I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.