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Get Your Sense Of Outrage Back, And Your Sense Of Defiance And Spirit Back, And Try To Put These Pieces Together And Confront The Excesses Of Empire At Every Turn.

Poets Are Political, They Have To Be Reflections Of Their Times [because] They're Living In Their Times... Poetry Is Political In That It's Standing In Opposition To Fascism. Good Poetry Asks A Bunch Of Questions And Asks The Audience To Interact With Themselves Or See Themselves In It; Maybe You Like It Or You Don't Like It. But The Fascist Sort Of Stuff Plays On Your Fears And Tells You To Jump On The Party Line And Gives Some Simple Excuses - Blame This Person.

People Try To Keep Their Past, Like Kind Of Holding On To Their Past. Every Springsteen Song Talks About That.

I Feel Like I'm A Filmmaker; I Don't Feel I Need To Yell 'action' And 'cut.'

Hopefully As You Get Older You Get More Selfless. That Would Be Probably A Good Goal. I Don't Know If We Do, Though.