I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

I find everything a struggle.

October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

When you look at extraordinary people look for scars.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Be yourself and look outside of yourself.

Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved.

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.