Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

Act as if it was and it will be.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

There are moments in your life that can change you forever, and you Norah, you are my forever moment.

Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention.

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.