One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so much through ….

No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if this is goi….

The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable….

But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy, and I'd say t….

I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd even think abo….

Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact that it didn't seem men….

When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At….

And the whole online thing is like, I just, that to me is a world that doesn't exist. It's not something you could touch or lick or smell. And as my ….

I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though, t….

Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow..

If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was first done on the prin….

A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable….

Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have to pay to publish….

My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things, some of the pieces I've used the….

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the se….