I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

If it is an imperfect word no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd but then more women than men I think read and write poetry.

Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

God is the perfect poet.

Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

My idea of a perfect pet is a really really big dog! Huge!