I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?

Life is a story. I wake up, it was a sacred dream.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.