“Not many songs can fend off evil. But the right song with the right voice can be a weapon; anyone who's listened to music through headphones while riding the subway or plowing angrily through a rush-hour sidewalk knows how it can and separate you from them, allows you to say to the teeming masses that you are this and they are that.”
“These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it that way, music...music can see you through anything.”
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”
“If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage”
“It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.”