There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

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

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

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

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

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.

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