I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

Be yourself around a world of clones.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Remember that. -Albus Dumbledore

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

Words, however, are things.

I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.