I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

The stars are filming us for no one.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

Poets sing our human music for us.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.