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.

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

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 a lot of them.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

You can't judge people by their cover.

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

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 life.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war.

If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.

I suddenly realise that it doesn't matter how far I go, or how lost I am, or how lonely I feel. I fit in here. I always will.That's how I know I'm home.

Labour is not a commodity or a standard or a means to an ulterior end but an end in itself.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

I think we all feel that way when we're young we don't think teachers have lives. We don't think therapists have lives. We don't think doctors have lives.

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.