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Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!