The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.