If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?