I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.