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I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.