Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

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

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.

Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.