I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.

I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.

I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult role.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.