Right now, America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy there now who is redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.