I lost myself for a couple of years. Learning to speak properly again has been hard as the damage to my teeth also affected my speech quite badly. I constantly felt judged by everyone that saw me. I’d completely given up on life but I’m finally starting to feel like myself again.”

I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much.

I always thought there were going to be things in my life that would go away, like beauty, youth, all of that stuff…But I never thought that my voice would leave me, because it’s so inherent to my nature. It was my identity. So when I couldn’t sing, that was unbearable. There were times I couldn’t even get out of bed – I was so depressed.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice.

Whatever you are going through in your personal life also affects your voice and that is exactly what I was going through hence I took time out around mid-2021

I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.

I have no idea what depression even was until I was in my twenties, once I was pretty sure that I had it, I suffered with it for another fifteen years, because I was ashamed, I was embarrassed, and I was afraid.

En mi silencio sólo falta mi voz.

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

...I was shut up inside that doll of myself and my true voice could not get out.

There was this whole thing of ‘Jack's voice breaking’ about three or four months ago, and I think I sort of laughed at the whole thing, 'cause they sort of made out like I couldn't sing anymore, and my whole life was over, which it wasn't.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.