The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.