I don't think I have any celeb crushes!

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook.

One dead and one alone. That's how the story ends.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.

Walk boldly and wisely. ... There is a hand above that will help you on.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

I think what I do is positive, in its own way.

He is not coming back." And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.