My Mother Turned Into A Professional Widow.

You Pay Your Money, You Take Your Choice. I Get The Audience My Language Attracts And I Lose The Ones It Repels.

I'm Aware Of My Audience In A Way, And I Do Try To Engage With Them While I'm Trying To Go About My Business Of Thinking. I Believe They Help Me By Providing A Focus.

I Was Very Committed To The Process Of Composing, Working At Poems, Putting Things Together And Taking Them Apart Like Some Kind Of Experimental Filmmaker.

I Reserve The Right To Tell Shaggy Dog Stories Or Even Common Jokes As Part Of What I'm Doing. I Don't Give A Damn If Half The Audience Walks Out.

When You Grow Up In A Family Of Languages, You Develop A Kind Of Casual Fluency, So That Languages, Though Differently Colored, All Seem Transparent To Experience.