Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal; this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.
The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.