"I am an early riser, and always wake up between 5 and 6am."

“There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear ...”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1932). “Prologue to Love”, New York : Dodd, Mead

“I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up”

“I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.”

“I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written scores for thirteen plays, which are not musicals, but straight plays.”

Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

“It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo”

“Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.”

Source : "Narada Michael Walden on his hit-filled career" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 17, 2012.

“Gimme some of that you and me, Some of that way back when, A little bit of wild and free I wanna feel that again”

“The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.82, Wave Books