In England everybody looks very hip East Side. They've got other hangups in other directions. We have our ideas about poets. There's a certain kind of rhythm in some kind of way that's visible. You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet.
Some people work in gas stations and they're poets.
I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist. I'd rather sing them. It seemed to me that the album copy you write is a lot like the writing of William Burroughs. Yes, and some of the imagery and anecdotes.