I go through phases of watching a ton of dance/performance, and I am bizarrely well-informed on the subject.

I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how they got to a place where they didn't have to talk to press.

One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.

I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.