I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.
I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired everyday.
There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."
Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.
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.
When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.
