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

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

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

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.

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