“I grew up in a bubble. I just watched TV. I thought that's what you we...” — Tyka Nelson Quote

“I grew up in a bubble. I just watched TV. I thought that's what you were supposed to do in life: sing and dance and act.”

“For a long time, I didn't want to live.”

“Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was writing lyrics while I was supposed to be working. I'd look up, and there's my supervisor.”

“Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.”

“It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.”

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”