Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.