Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.
Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.
I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.
I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.
Id rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.
I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.
I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.
I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it. " This is pretty much what I do.
The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I couldn't do it because I was a girl. They simply found the entire proposition ridiculous. Writers were dead and English, or else extremely elderly and American; they were not sixteen years old and Canadian.
I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.