It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.

What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.

Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.

Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.

It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

Cynicism is a form of obedience.