There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

No fair, sky. I'm the one who feels like crying.

The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.