"Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen to you, then you need to make sure there's some point to what you're saying."

“When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.”

“I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.”

“If I can't write it would be as if I died.”

“From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.”

Source : Geshe Tashi Tsering, Ayya Khema (2010). “Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

“I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened little me had always wondered how to swim through the vast ocean, but you didn't even want a ship. You wanted wings. I thought you were amazing.”

“People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.”

“Sometimes you think you are 100% right, but you are 100% wrong!”

“One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.”

Source : "Dame Joan Sutherland obituary" by Alan Blyth, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.