I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds better adults. I'm doing what I can to try and pick up the slack and I applaud anyone who tries to give back to their community.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.