I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

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.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

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

On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I believe in what I'm singing, but they shouldn't be fooled because we all have fake selves and it's in there somewhere. It's not pretending to hurt somebody; it's just something that comes out of me, from my experience.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.