Being Humble Matters.

Life Is Too Short To Worry About What Others Say About You. Have Fun And Give Them Something To Talk About.

I've Been Known To Preach.

I Think Poetry Can Be A Kind Of Secular Way In Which People Can Be Led To Approach The Difficult Parts Of Their Life, Where There's Been Loss, Where There's Sadness Of A Deep Kind. If Poetry Can Help People To Be More At Ease In Expressing Even To Themselves A Lot Of The Darkness And Pain Of Ordinary Human Existence, Then It's Serving Some Kind Of Cultural Role, Perhaps More Than A Cultural Role, Perhaps It Is Serving Something Of A Spiritual Role.

Dialogue Means Debates And Everyone's Point Of View.

I Understand That Being Able To Appeal To The Public And Having An Amazing Sense Of Humour Is Not Something That Comes Easy. It's Definitely A Gift And For Which I'm Thankful.