“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”

“Go to College, Stay in school, If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”

“You can always make something out of nothing.”

“If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.”

“I'm not sure you can appreciate how much I want to lay you out before me and make you scream my name.”

“When I was a boy and I sang, my voice felt to me like a leak sprung from a small and secret star hidden somewhere in my chest and whatever there was about me that was fragile disappeared when my mouth opened and I let the voice out. We learned, we were prisons for our voices. You could want to try and make sure the door was always opened... We weren't something struck to make a tone. We were strike and instrument both. If you can hold the air and shake it to make something, you learn, maybe you can make anything. Maybe you can walk out of here on this thin, thin air.”