“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”
“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.”
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...”
“If an artist only as good as there art and a poet only as good as there poetry if I am neither of these things what am I as good as?”
“I am a writer and I want to write.”
“Why do we writers write? Is it because we have something to say, or is it because we just do? I write because I can, because I just do, and because I am a writer, and so I write.”