Iris Dement

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.