These Days Cry Out, As Never Before,

My Family Tends To Be Pretty Alcoholic And Drug-addicted.

Here Are The Two Best Prayers I Know: 'help Me, Help Me, Help Me' And 'thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

I Have Been Somebody Who Has Not Written A Great Deal About The Truth Of My Family's Life.

You Are Going To Feel Like Hell If You Never Write The Stuff That Is Tugging On The Sleeves In Your Heart--your Stories, Visions, Memories, Songs: Your Truth, Your Version Of Things, In Your Voice. That Is Really All You Have To Offer Us, And It's Why You Were Born.

You Must Not Inflict Life On Someone Who Will Be Resented.