The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all

Family time is really important to me.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.