I really believe in the power of music.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me.

I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.