In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

Imagination is the one weapon against reality.

I have a lot of new music that I'm very excited about.

I so desperately want my words to be indicative of how deeply and completely I love my people.

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his: I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.