I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

We have to let the Warrior Code rule our hearts. The death of a warrior does not mean victory.

Our stride for success is the beginning of wisdom”.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.