When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.

I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead.

Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.

Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.

If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

I knew I was not alone. They would never leave until ever last one of us was gone.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

The supernatural does not exist.

Now is the moment that never ends.

I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

I’m no longer human and there is no past.’ (Acheron's litany)

I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.

I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.