I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

God will create the best opportunity for you. To find those opportunities is your responsibility.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

I love to make things. If I have some free time and you have a dollar and a dream and you are making something funny and cool I'd love to be a part of it.

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Obstacles are only in your view when you don't have a clear enough focus on your goal.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.