Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

