I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!

Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand.

Stop rushing. Slow down and enjoy the beauty of life.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

I fully understand the One-China policy. But I don't know why we have to be bound by a One-China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade.

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

So eager for eternal damnation.