I inhaled again and stepped onto the stage under a beam of white light. The silence lasted only long enough for me to play the first chord of the new song—intense, unmistakably mine, and about what I had lived the most lately: love and change. There was no trace of excess or chaos in it. It was simple, technical, full of emotion and truth.

“Everything will change in me It only depends on you I finally hold a feeling It’s in my blood Let it be Only love songs make me Dizzy with emotion In ...