I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

Made a decision. I will never let a sunny day happen without me again. Darkness is almost always guaranteed unless some strange thing happens. But the sun...?! Go get some.

Beavers give a dam

One of the downsides of being special is that you feel out of place wherever you go.

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.

My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.

I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.