I am the pedophiles dream, a messianic Peter Pan.
Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
Friends should have all things in common.
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.