I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.
I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.