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

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

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

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

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."

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.

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.