My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways which informs my politics.

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass for new things to happen to us we want to hold on to certain moments we don't want our lives to end.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance like a signpost or a warning notice.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now throwing information at you making everything available to you and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

I can promise you that women working together - linked informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale New York society woman best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music it informs your character and it informs your talent.