“It begins, as most things begin, with a song.”
“I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.”
“...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.”
“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
“One of the most important things I've learned is that creating a vision of what you want to be is the beginning of making it happen.”