Stood Quotes by 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…

— Lemon Andersen

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

— 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…

— Lemon Andersen

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

— Lemon Andersen

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

— Lemon Andersen

I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and…

— 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.…

— Lemon Andersen

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

— Lemon Andersen

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

— Lemon Andersen

I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,'…

— Lemon Andersen

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

— Lemon Andersen