Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are