Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.