“I don't care how impossible it seems.”

“It can often seem that those in power don't want us to enjoy making things for ourselves - they'd prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.”

“To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.”

“You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?”

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.”

“Facts are simple and facts are straight.Facts are lazy and facts are late.Facts all come with points of view.Facts don't do what I want them to.Facts just twist the truth around.Facts are living turned inside out.”

“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.”