“Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.”

“I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.”

“It’s true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don’t meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly.There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.”

“To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.”

“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.”

“The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.”

“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”