When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel like making the three mile hike to the well to get water and carry it back, everyone struggles.

I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.