I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all adored, like the younger befriends or reaches out to their hero, and for me, whenever you meet some younger person, who has a fire in their gut, a way of being in the world, it excites you.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life — not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.