We live in a stage of politics where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

You know the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

At present our country needs women's idealism and determination perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Where there is politics or economics there is no morality.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

Politics begin where the masses are not where there are thousands but where there are millions that is where serious politics begin.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

Well I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love loss heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things but to me they're more visual than oral and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there I know there will be people who will listen.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play it has a poignancy to it.

The romanticised life where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it and every time you read it depending on your conditions you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel once you have read it you have grasped it.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from and it gets isolated by crisis and those crises are often very intimate also.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.