“So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world,
Breathing a beauteous order that controls
With growing sway the growing life of man.”

“In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.”

“In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.”

“You grow with music, or the music outgrows you.”

“The American male runs half of the global world and grows up on rock music from day one. If you can alter the psyche of someone who's growing up to be a rapist or a total misogynist, you're creating values and instead of making the void bigger, you're making it smaller.”

“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.”

“A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.”

“There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.”

“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
"I want to be a soldier. A hero."
"You'll grow out of it.”

“Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.”