I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

My parents think I'm better under pressure.