You hate to cultivate the mindset that anything that is not a braced neutral spinal position is probably going to kill you.

Live as if they're going to tell stories about you.

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.