You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

I like all forms of movies. I'm a movie geek, so I watch all kinds of films, but - and I read all kinds of things, too. But the poetry that speaks to me the most directly will contain mundane things, will contain details.

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.