If all you have is music, then you don't have music
Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
Your humanity is your instrument.
Composing is improvisation slowed down.
Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.