“I always turn to Frank O'Hara and David Berman's 'Actual Air,' which c...” — Terrance Hayes Quote

“I always turn to Frank O'Hara and David Berman's 'Actual Air,' which came out in 1999. He's a poet I haven't tired of.”

“When I applied for grad school, I did not specify genre. I said I wanted an MFA in Creative Writing. I was so cute and stupid! The admissions committee at Pitt decided to put me in poetry.”

“Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.”

“The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.”

“I had gone from writing alone, not talking to anyone, to suddenly being in a room filled with not only people but actual celebrities.”

“Jax lies in place of actual information. He takes the smallest iota of an idea or a rumor and blows it up into an elaborate story with tons of inconsistencies because it is all a lie.”