"Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live."

“A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.”

“The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.”

“I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah. That led me to discover through census data that these towns were already extremely white and they were becoming, in most cases, even whiter. Statistics could only tell me so much; in order to get to the spirit and essence of it, I had to immerse myself.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.”

“Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.”

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

“Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.”

Source : "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

“What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.”

“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

Source : "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.