I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the movies, they're all the same style. I think it's very condescending to the audience to assume they only have a three second attention span and so they don't leave anything on the screen for any longer. I don't understand that.

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."

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'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.