I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Write the poem only you can write.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in Doctor Who. Im not a Doctor Who fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?