This reduced me to tears at my desk. So incredibly touching.

Beautiful music often makes me cry a little, but that I can relate to being bullied as a child is really what brought on the tears. It's a horrible thing to have to go through. I think it's great he received the validation he probably needed from the judges. Unfortunately, at that age what we need or want most desperately is validation from our peers. You couldn't pay me to be a teenager again.