I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

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.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired everyday.

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.