I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.

Doris Day was the perfect woman.

I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'