"As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled "Kazeno Komoriuta" and I have recorded my piano adaptation of this song and honestly I couldn't expect that it would be so difficult and challenging for me to perform my piano version of this beautiful song."

“I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.”

“I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.”

“This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones.”

Source : "Seth Green Shares His Secrets of Financial Success as Unbroke Premieres". Interview with Andrea Chalupa, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2009.

“Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when...”

“I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career I want to be true to myself. I want to try to be the best role model I can be for kids who might look into boxing as a sport and a professional career. I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud, gay man.”

Source : "Orlando Cruz becomes boxing's first openly gay man" by Bob Velin, www.usatoday.com. October 3, 2012.

“God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.”

“The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

“I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.”