“You can speak with a turtle just by flippin' him around
You can build a boat, sail the sea
You can buy a moat, forge a key
Initiate the sequence, create catastrophe”
“It was then, at what would also become my own little slice of Heaven, that I met one of my oldest friends, the piano, and it was love at first chord.”
Source: Eleanora's Sundown: Eleanora's Sundown, #1
“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”
Source: Poetry as Enchantment
“If someone isn’t there for you, be there for yourself. Don’t wait for calls that never come, or comfort from someone who only shows up for themselves. Wipe your own tears, hold your own heart together, pick yourself up again. Because the cruel truth is, some people don't love you or care about you, they only care about what they get from you. But you? You are the one who has to live with yourself every day. So show up for yourself… the way others should have, but didn’t.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I'd lost myself in that haze, too, now that I think about it. I'd forgotten all else, when we jammed. It was sublime in there. I felt timeless. Thoughtless. Borderless. Made of nothing but air and music.”
Source: One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
“No one dismantles this band but me.”
Source: One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
“Sex, drugs 'n' rock n roll, ya dig?”
Source: Bad Luck Boots: A Memoir
“In the semi-darkness, Tom thought he saw faces-- or were they masks?-- that seemed to be covered in feathers or fur. And there was a summery scent of sun-ripened fruit; of night-blooming flowers; of new-baked bread; and frying mushrooms, and bilberry wine, and sandalwood, and cedar, and musk; and fresh-laundered sheets all wild from the wind. Now he could hear music, too; the sound of flutes and fiddles and distant voices raised in song; the soft, persistent rhythms of drums; the distant chirp of silver bells.”
Source: The Moonlight Market
“If music is the food of the soul, poetry is the poison of the soul.”
“I wrote you a song. You didn’t understand it for all of the screaming, yet that was the metaphor.”