When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

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

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

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

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.

[My music] is opposite to fashion.