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

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

It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music.

I cannot pretend i am not without fear.

I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.'

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well