In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don't even rhyme with T.
To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically.
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.
I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.
My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.
When I decided to see what Nascar was all about in 2005, it was an intellectual project, the same reason I went to the shooting range on West 20th Street and tried shooting a rifle at paper targets. I was addicted to both things instantly.
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
Within a match, there's so many things that happen that could ultimately determine the outcome: You reach too much with your right hand, you step forward with your left leg, you get your head out of position.
I will say and I will do things that no one else in their right mind would do.
There are still recording artists out there doing things for the right reason, but a lot of people seem to be just driven by fame.
Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.
I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.
My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.
