People can cry much easier than they can change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.