When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.
He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.