In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.