When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn't sing; they only spoke.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

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.

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

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.