I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

In relationships... there are no failures. Just experiences.

Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

Power is the ability to afford not to learn.

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.