We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.

Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement.

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.