When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.
I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.
Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.
It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience into art. Anyone can run up to a rooftop, tear off their clothes, and scream about how screwed up the world is. But for the people down below, all they see is a person losing their mind. I wanted to make something that channeled that emotion in a way that elicited an empathetic response from the reader. So that after you read this book, you would want to run up to the rooftop and scream about how screwed up the world is.
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
I never knew how quickly I would go from someone that you loved to someone you used to know.
Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.