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.

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

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.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

The way I look at it, a footballer wouldn't play in flip-flops or dip their feet in acid and then expect to get to David Beckham's level. My voice is my living, so I'll be looking after it.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread