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

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.

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.

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

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.

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 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.