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

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

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 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 was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists, I'd say. And how, as a child, I wanted to be like them, and identified with them culturally.

I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension - no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.

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.