Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.