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.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

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

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

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

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