The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I'm explo….

Survival is a four letter word..

Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives ….

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat..

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive..

I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty lan….

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to..

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed..

A girl is a soul at sunrise..

babies ain't cute / hungry..

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages..

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to..

Politics is a word spelled N-O-W..