I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfie…

- Lemon Andersen

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

- Lemon Andersen

For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a…

- Lemon Andersen

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

- Lemon Andersen

I don't know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I've gone th…

- Lemon Andersen

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

- Lemon Andersen

I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some k…

- Lemon Andersen

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

- Lemon Andersen

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

- Lemon Andersen