Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
