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Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

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'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.

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

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.