Interviewer: Do you keep a notebook?
Tom Waits: Oh yeah, everybody does! Life is too confusing. Monkey wrenches, pocket knives, dog food, instant coffee, lipstick. You gotta get it organized somehow.
Whole interview here. And for another, more recent interview, click here. (Thanks to Jilly Dybka at Poetry Hut Blog for the links that led me to these!)
If only The Paris Review‘s interviews were this entertaining….
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
I wish I was more consistent in my notebook skills. I write and then don't. I probably miss about half of the good stuff that my brain is trying to get down on paper.<br /><br />In the class I am currently taking (Natural Science and Literature) pretty much all of the authors we are reading kept a journal or a notebook and wrote down what they saw from nature. Which later became poems, essays