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 think being a poet, period, is isolating.

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

People who are too uptight make me nervous.

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 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 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.