How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.