The old Lena is dead..

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets..

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing..

That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to….

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

Music gave me something to do in my life..

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?.

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are..

I don't really like ska..

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be..

Education isn't something you can finish.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry..