Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion. ”

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life. ”

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. ”

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world. ”

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. ”

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically. ”

When I was thirteen years old, and we had just moved to Germany, I definitely felt I was missing out on normal teenage life. I was watching my old school friends from Canada grow up without me while I was in Germany trying to learn the language and trying to pass each year without failing. ”

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life. ”

I make music... and it helps me figure out life. ”

I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there. ”