[Commencement Address for University College, Rutgers University; Delivered at the Louis Brown Arena, Piscataway, NJ/Woodbridge News Tribune] As a professional artist, I have learned that I could live without money or love or a fixed place to call home for long stretches. I also learned I could not persevere if I ever lost the confidence that what I performed mattered, or that how I performed it was authentic. Show less «