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There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.