I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

I love women with attitude.

Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

I just don't believe people can tame animals.

Going through my divorce has changed who I am in my understanding of what's good and bad in relationships.

Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.