I Think Of Poets As Outlaw Visionaries

America Is A Very Venal Place; Everything Has To Be Sold There. You Can Repackage Your Own S**t And Sell It If It Is Marketed In The Right Way. The Motivation Is To Sell. It's So Illogical And Strange To Me. It's Such A Disposable Culture And Yet I Feel Comfortable Being American.

I'd Wanted To Be A Writer And When I Came Back To New York Worked As A Musician Too, But I Found My Writing Starting To Get More And More Referential To Cinema.

I Like Marginal Characters, I Like Real People. I Learn More From Talking To My Plumber When He Comes To Fix My Toilet Than I Do From Meeting A Movie Star. I Think My Movies Are In The Same Vein As That.

Film Relates To Almost Every Other Form Of Expression, But Poetry Is A Bit Abstract In Its Strength And Sometimes Even The White Spaces On The Page Are Evocative Almost As Much As Where The Text Is. Certain Poets Have Played With That.

I Always Think The Sex Pistols And The Ramones As Very, Very Important Because They Stripped Things Down.