Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.

I think my friends tell me their deepest darkest secrets only because they know it won't ever come out.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.