Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
| Alice Barrett, Actress (1956) |
| Jennifer Beals, Actress (1963) |
| Beatrice Dalle, Actress (1964) |
| Minnie Maddern Fiske, Actress (1865) |
| Jean Genet, Dramatist (1910) |
| Richard Hammond, Entertainer (1969) |
| Doug Harvey, Athlete (1924) |
| Derrick Jensen, Author (1960) |
| Al Kaline, Athlete (1934) |
| Richard Leakey, Environmentalist (1944) |
| John Amery, Politician (1945) |
| Arthur Capper, Politician (1951) |
| Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist (2001) |
| Masaru Ibuka, Businessman (1997) |

