The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your childhood.

Success is great, but making music that means something to people is what really matters.

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists.