I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.