I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's the clearest I've ever been about this: "I don't write free verse poems - mostly because I can't. But I am interested in the musical effects achievable with free verse."

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.