Dear Michael,
Rather than use your death as an event to mark the start of my new life, I will use the date of your birth. That feels much more right and comfortable. So tomorrow, on your birthday, I am performing my music for someone in the first time in years, and I will also start a new life as a better, more hard-working person. Rest in peace, my inspiration. Thank you for everything you were, and continue to be, for me.