What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I don’t think of myself as a classical artist or a pop artist. I just think of myself as an artist who sings.

每个故事都是一次旅程，每次旅程都会改变旅行者。

I believe in love at first sight because I am a product of it. My parents fell in love at first sight.

孤寂能产生独创精神，酝酿出一种敢作敢为、令人震惊的美丽的创作，也就是诗。但孤寂也会促成相反的东西，会养成人们不近人情、荒唐怪癖的性格，也会使人萌生非法之念。

成功人士与其他人之间的唯一区别就是努力工作。

To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the ones that never heal and that define who we are.