My influences as a writer are Edgar Allen Poe, Silvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Ted Hughes and William Burrows. I've always been a writer, but I really got serious about writing when I was in 6th grade. (The first novel idea I had was called "Emmit Lee Jones")

I'm a serious musician. I play several instruments. My whole family are into music, actually.

I study psychology for a hobby. If I couldn't have a career in some form of art, I would want to be a medical researcher or a shrink. Actually, that was just a crazy fantasy of mine, if I ever lost the choice of the arts. Now, I'm finally sure of what I want to do for a living, and that's Journalism. I used to go to school in Oakland (Oakland School for the Arts OSA--totally wacko school). But I left, because they're horrible people, running it (although now they aren't there anymore). I'm still writing an article about what it was like while Loni Berry was the Director of the School.

One of the reasons I like to write is that I like to shock people.