I've always put myself intensely into my work..

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry..

Europeans are quarrelsome..

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go..

Change before you're forced to change..

Can you keep up with the lingo.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work..

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women..

I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me..

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music..

Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'.

You have to be willing to recognize failure..

You're afraid of your own anger..

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get..

You're a writer. Make it up..

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside..

You must ignore the bad and adopt the good..

You are what you eat, but eventually you become what eats you..

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.

You can be maybe rented but never bought..

You can never lead unless you follow..