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.

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

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

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

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