Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.

I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.

I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere.

Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.

I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in my head while writing the music in the first place.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.