I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.