Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time. . . Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.