Don't give in to your fears... If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.