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.

I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

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

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.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.