You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.

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 spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.