I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

We need a world-wide Department of Peace.