No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

What is it that you want to do, or put out into this world that is greater than your fear?

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

From the quote of mine with knowledge of impact:-“If you ignored Love once

Come on, " he said. "Bring the poker."I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it.

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.