I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.
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Nationality: English Type: Entertainer Born: December 19, 1969 |
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.