Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.

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.

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

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

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.