Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

I tell everyone a different story. That way nothing's ever boring, even when they turn and say goodbye.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.