But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

I've worked for law firms, I've worked for corporations, and for the past 20 years, I've been writing working for myself, and believe me it's a lot better. That's a big part of the James Bond panache, that you're responsible, 100 percent responsible, for the success or failure of your mission in life, whatever it is.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.