"If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works."

“With complete consecration comes perfect peace.”

“Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.”

“If we have faith in Jesus Christ the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing.”

“It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed. ... To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition... Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves-not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.”

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music" by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

“In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.”

Source : Randy Susan Meyers (2010). “The Murderer's Daughters”, p.13, Macmillan

“We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other.”

“I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.”