I always voted at my party's call and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time so kids didn't know what to make of me.

Well if this is poetry I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Well I still write poetry but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself but I liked singing chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

I am an enthusiast but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty a cat lady.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

If anything I consider myself non-violent I'm from the hippy era peace love groovy.

I'm at peace with my family my friends myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.