“I didn't wake up one day and just couldn't hear. I woke up one day and...” — Mandy Harvey Quote

I didn't wake up one day and just couldn't hear. I woke up one day and realized I was having difficulty, and that I had overcompensated by lip reading, so that I didn't really understand how bad it was.

I really hope my music and my life can help encourage people not to give up.

I grew up with hearing, so I have a really good understanding of music theory and the structure of music.

My friends and family refused to give up on me even when I gave up on myself, and I wanted to hopefully encourage even just one person to try again.

I started singing in a choir when I was 4 years old.

I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.