I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things but to me they're more visual than oral and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

And if they haven't got poetry in them there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it and have the patience. I don't and haven't but that's my problem.

I haven't been given many things but I've been given ample limitless patience.

I have one piece of music since 1997 and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.