If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.
Fashion has always been very generous. Think of what it has done for curing AIDS.
I am an early riser, and always wake up between 5 and 6am.
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you. '