I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."