Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.

It's fun to take songs from a completely different context and reframe them. We did two mixtape albums called 'Other People's Heartache' and 'Other People's Heartache Pt. 2,' which were full of those kind of covers and mash-ups, mixed with film music and film quotes.

I'd love to work on art and music full time.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.