My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.