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The techniques of contemporary poetry are probably the techniques of your daily life. I don't know a single person who goes into the grocery store and thinks in complete sentences. We often think in fragments, we think in little lists, we think in non-sequiturs, we think in feelings that may not match up with each other. ”
The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer. ”
I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them. ”
I was fortunate enough to have a situation in my life where everything did shake out and hit rock bottom, and I did see who was standing there and really saw who had my back for real. ”
A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack. ”
If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life. ”
What you see is what you get, and the majority of people in my life that loan me clothes know that they've never seen me in a suit. ”
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. ”
The mall is my life. ”
I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say that we're a couple. I can definitely say that he's somebody in my life, and I'm definitely interested but I'm not serious with anybody. ”