I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

He's around the twist, ' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.' to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love.

We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught.

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.