I have always been a prisoner of poetry.

"Sometimes, you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes, it makes you love them more."

Efficiency without ethics is a path to failure.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Literature is the voice of the marginalized.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.