“All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.”

“Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no longer separate, they have become a melody, a harmony. It is the greatest music possible, all other musics are just faint things compared to it, shadow things compared to it.”

“Sometimes forgiveness is a tough thing to muster up. And forgetting? Well, you have to find the forgiveness first. Hopefully the forgetting will come...with time.”

“A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.”

“You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.”

“Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon; you have not thoroughly learned to know each other's foibles by that time.”