It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.