I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.