There Is A Phenomenal Amount Of Pressure

I Collect Art Books. I Have Hundreds And Hundreds Of Them And They Get Me To Start Hearing Things. Sometimes People Look At Them, But I Find That Visual Art Gets Me Listening, Gets Me Hearing Things.

I Started Playing The Piano When I Was About Two And Got A Scholarship To The Peabody Conservatory Of Music In Baltimore When I Was Five. But I Left When I Was 11.

When The Mothers Start To Shatter, Then Everything Just Comes Undone.

When I Am Able To Be Present, Listening - Really Listening - To A Viewpoint Described Through Someone Else's Lens, I Am Here In The Now And Alive.

I'm Not Somebody That Gets Played A Lot At Parties And Weddings. I Mean, You Know, You Mention My Name And You Get An Eye Roll, Until, Of Course, You're Jumping Off A Bridge.