Vera Wang

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

I've never really been somebody who likes to hit it straight. That's just never been my forte, I guess.