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I try as much as possible not to utter a single line that I don't believe in.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.