Everything in life influences my music.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.
The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.
Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what's in her basket.
My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.
Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.
