When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about the….

[My music] is opposite to fashion..

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it..

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasi….

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards ….

I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who alway….

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped..

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people..

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate….

People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong..

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem..

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend ….

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be..

Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is on….

I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that h….

I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of livi….

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more..

Composing was more difficult than writing things down..

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write..

Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being..

I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books,….