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.

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

I don't think I have any celeb crushes!

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.

God wants us to move persistently towards His goals

Trustworthy is earned not bought.

Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.

It was a struggle for me as a kid and everyone knows struggle, whether it's financially, economically, your dreams of becoming whatever you want to be.

Truth does not demand belief.

Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.

It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!