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I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
I listen to everything and find parts about a song in the lyrics/melody/chords/production that I like and can be inspired by when I write my next song.
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
