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

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

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.

Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.

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

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry