All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!
All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.