I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.
My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.