William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.