THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I knew in the days when I was a teenager singing for God. I was so sure. When I became “Whitney Houston” and all this other stuff that happened, my life became the world’s. My privacy. My business. Who I was with. Who I married. And I was, like, that’s not fair. I wanted to go to the park. I wanted to walk down the street with my husband, hand in hand, without somebody looking at us or having the media always in my business.  I just wanted to be normal.

Whitney Houston, via oprah.com