“My mother's life was way too heavy for me.”

“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.”

“I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.... victory after victory, [laughing.. ] Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. [she pauses].. My mother had victories.”

“In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.”

“You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.”

“With the cry I wake;—and around me
The mother and child at her feet
Breathe peace in even whispers;
And the night falls heavy and sweet.”

“All my life my mother has told me I'm hard to shop for. She can't find the bacon aisle!”

“When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”