#Rap

"Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't."

"I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being."

"A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level."

"This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet."

"I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me."