A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.

A man`s ego is just as fragile as a woman`s heart

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry.

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.