John Crowe Ransom

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.