Clergyman's

“You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it’s just complaining.”
– Joni Mitchell

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.”
– Nina Simone