My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity.

If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.