Unfinished Conversations Quotes

It's daunting to go back through the past, to read tweets and come across Facebook profiles of people who have passed away. It stirs up memories you never actually shared online or never will share online. It was a very emotional process.

I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.

'You Should Be Here' came from a real place. I lost my father... it was right when I was getting my record deal. There's just been so many moments that he hasn't been here for. It's kind of the reason I wrote the song.

My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'

I think to myself, How would things be for me if my dad was still alive? Would we get along? Would we argue? You know, we never got to the falling-out stage with each other.

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.

I don't want to leave anything offstage.

My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.