“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”

“The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.”

“Sometimes, the Lord just takes blessed people because they've filled their purpose early. Everyone plays their own song. They sing their story to the world and leave behind a melody of memories. Sometimes... their song is cut short and ends too early. But that doesn't mean their music was any less sweet or that they left any less of an impression.”

“A map is a song. It's different when different people sing it. . .You will make this your own song, sing it your own way.”

“Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you do. No one has ever heard music. Not the way you hear it. The songs are beautiful vampires, asleep in your iPod, coming alive at night, aglow. You can have them on your hours, yours to conduct. Music shapes us and we shape it.”

“Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.”