Anzia Yezierska Quotes
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I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn't into girls, and I was abandoned.
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Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
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I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it's always scary wondering if anyone will connect with that.
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I purposely didn't change the pronouns in 'Dancing On My Own' so that it was from a gay man's perspective.
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I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.
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For a lot of people, music is about the show, the lights, and all that. With Filipino music fans, they genuinely listen to songs.
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The real thing creates its own poetry.
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I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.
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As a singer, you want to connect with as many people as possible; that's my whole thing.
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Since I became more confident, I've thought, 'Right, let me get myself on the market'. So I joined Tinder and Chappie, and it was funny because, at first, the sites thought I was an imposter.
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Most of my songs are inspired by both falling in love and heartache. And it was a turning point for me as a singer and songwriter as it dawned on me that I wasn't being honest enough about what I truly feel.
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Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?
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Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.