At certain times I read a lot of poetry. My favorite poets are Shelley and Keats. Rimbaud is so identifiable. Lord Byron. I don't know. Lately if I read poems, it's like I can always hear the guitar. Even with Shakespeare's sonnets I can hear a melody because it's all broken up into timed phrases so I hear it. I always keep thinking, 'What kind of song would this be?'

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.