"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."

I think the best thing about music is that it can make you feel things that you didn't even know you could feel.

"Silence in a picture book is as important as the images and words."