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

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to maintain or reintroduce the imaginative capacity of their earlier self while nonetheless maturing. And I do think the more successful the poet is at this particular thing, the greater their achievement as a poet.

I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something I think I can gain comfort with by practice. It was a real struggle for me while writing memoir to get past three pages or so. In poems, I can write long poems. But length in prose: no.