With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.

My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.