I Started Working With Friends

[kenneth Koch] Taught Children In Public Schools In New York City To Write Poems And Told Them Down Worry About Rhyming, Don't Worry About Any Of That Stuff. You Know, Write A Poem Where You Mention Three Colors And Make It Five Lines - Or He Would Just Give Them, You Know, Little Strategies. And, Man, They Wrote Some Great Poems.

Everything Is Not Laden With Potential For Drama In Life.

Each One Of Us Is A Set Of Shifting Molecules, Spinning In Ecstasy.

If You Have A Counterculture Band, You Put A Name On It, You Call Them Beatniks, And You Can Sell Something - Books Or Bebop. Or You Label Them As Hippies And You Can Sell Tie-dyed T-shirts.

The Filmmaker Amos Poe Was A Huge Inspiration For Me By Making Guerrilla-style Punk Films On The Streets Of New York And - Well, It's Just A Lot Of Painters And Artists And Filmmakers All Within That Scene, And It's Very, Very Important To Me.