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

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

If you feel something, you should do it.

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

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.