My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.