My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.

If I walk down the street in jeans and a plain t-shirt, I don't feel like the world sees me as I want to be seen or as what I am.

Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

I like lots of color and mix-and-match.

I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.

I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.

My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.

It's really fun and just to be with a friend while you're working really hard. It can sometimes be really stressful. Also it's just fun to have someone to laugh with and have a good time with.

I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.

I think bootlegging is kinda cool.

It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

The best secrets are the most twisted

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

Social media is not rocket science. This, however, does not make it easy either.

To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

I have a gift. I just know what I'm doing.

Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.