“Music is LIFE and the written word is our SOUL...”

“Music is forever. Music is life. Music is something worth believing in...Music is my words, my soul...my muse.”

“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if you've never retreated to the solitude of a dark room and listened to Beethoven's Ninth from start to finish, you know nothing. For music is a transcendental exploration of human emotion and experience, the very fabric of life in its purest form. And the Ninth our greatest musical achievement.”

“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”

“No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.”

“Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.”

“Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.”