My Father Was Very Strict With Me,

And I'll Remember The Love That You Gave Me, Now That I Am Standing On My Own, I'll Remember The Way That You Changed Me, I'll Remember.

Believing In Yourself And Being Willing To Do Anything, To Walk Through The Fire, To Do What It Is That You Want To Do. Getting Out Of That Car Accident Covered With Blood To Play The Gig . . . I Mean, That's Me. That's Just Me.

Words Are Useless, Especially Sentences.

Trying To Be A Professional Dancer, Paying My Rent By Posing Nude For Art Classes, Staring At People Staring At Me Naked. Daring Them To Think Of Me As Anything But A Form They Were Trying To Capture With Their Pencils And Charcoal. I Was Defiant. Hell-bent On Surviving. On Making It. But It Was Hard And It Was Lonely, And I Had To Dare Myself Every Day To Keep Going.

All The Criticism Is Ultimately A Blessing In Disguise. Because Now People Know About Malawi [due To The Child Adoption]. And Now People Know About The Orphans There. And Hopefully It's Gonna Turn Around. And A Positive Is Gonna Come Out Of The Negative.