I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean.

Her love has been always unrequited, but until now it wasn't real love. Now it hurts, and that's how she knows it is real.

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.

I didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling