"I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book."

“You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings.”

“Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.”

“History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.”

“The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.”

Source : James Galvin (2014). “The Meadow”, p.4, Holt Paperbacks

“Kids are great in that they keep you on your toes. They're like a puzzle... in a blender, haha. You have to take the pieces out and try to put it together on the fly.”

“I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.”

“I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.”

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

“What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.”