We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
Composition has almost always been solitary.
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
One rose says more than the dozen.
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.
The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.
I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby kil...
The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.
Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.
Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.
People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.
Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.
When we started after Osama bin Laden, we really decided to go after the Taliban. And we seemed to be content to kick the Taliban out of Kandahar. And then we let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora.
