“I know, I should've just shut him down like a Broadway Musical, but that's just not the way I'm wired.”
“I know there is no point in haranguing him because he will just shut down, but I want to cover every angle.”
“Because sometimes I was tired of feeling so much and I just wanted to shut down and not feel anything. But I guess I wasn't wired that way. All I could do was write about it. Get it out of my head and onto something like paper that I could manage easier.”
“Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.”
“I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does.”
“But I don't know how to tell him all this. That I'm scared and I don't know how to be normal. I'm broken, just like him, and I'm not sure I can fix myself.”