Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.