When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.
People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
The loss of my mom really inspired me to go to a place with my performances that were emotionally honest, and I found that audiences really responded to that. People need to see heartbreak transformed into beauty.
The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.
To write is to give meaning to suffering.
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Anything that gives us pain can be transformed into this, into beautiful moments shared with friends.
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.
