I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.
I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.
I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.
I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.
I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.
I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
