“i write, because not breathing is not an option.”

“Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t?”

“You can always make something out of nothing.”

“Don't settle for being an option; become a priority.”

“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”

“How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.”

“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”