Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.