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

You can't judge people by their cover.

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

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

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self and I'm not going to judge my fake self.