You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

People are worried where additional supply will come from.

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

I always knew I was going to be a family man.

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.