If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."