Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

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

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

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.