I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.