Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.