I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

