“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...”
“My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father. ”
“I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.”
“My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.”
“My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.”
“He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”