It's an escape from the everyday. It's also a way to connect with society.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.

Despite all the faults, it's still really important to [my] everyday life.

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.