Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

The Voice' gave me the exposure that YouTube was never able to provide for me, just because I didn't have a label or that kind of opportunity before. It also kind of trained me as person and performer with an audience. ”

When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from personal experience. I write from personal experience, of course, but I don't limit myself to that. ”

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption. ”

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn. ”

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity. ”

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events. ”

I used to be a stressed-out person. I'm not anymore. I try to find the lining in everything in life. ”

I guess I've kind of had an attitude my whole life. ”

With a mammogram - as great as they are, and they do save a lot of lives - if you have very dense breasts, it really can't see if there is something in there. There are other tests, including an MRI, that can really go into the tissue and really see cell formation and hot spots, and that's what you want to see before it becomes a tumor. ”

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy. ”