“[My mother] believed we could each change the world, but what convinced me this was possible was music.”

“I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of---”

“Yes, life could be better. But it could also be worse. Don’t believe me? Allow me introduce you to my mother-in-law.”

“My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.”

“We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.”

“For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me. ”