Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.