“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
“I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.”
“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.”
“Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.”
“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”
“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translateinto a new tongue.”