I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I find it very odd that the amendment about the right to bear arms, laws that were written so long ago, still pertain and don't get adjusted properly. Because the right to bear arms doesn't mean automatic weaponry designed specifically for human combat.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.