I do a lot of readings.

Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.