Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.

My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

There's a difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we're meant for.

Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.