If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

No one gets out of here alive.

The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...