“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”

“I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection”

“Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.”

“As seen in my loneliness, there was this difference between the Bible and the newspapers. The one reminded one that, apart from God, my life was but a bubble of air, and it bade me remember my Creator; the other fostered arrogance and loneliness.”

“I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.”

“There ain't a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.”

“It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

“I think I should be in a [Disney animated] film called ‘Space Shrews’. Where I go to space. With a load of shrews. And nothing really happens. We just get out and have a lolly and then come back. But it’ll be a musical […] the ship will be built out of my own hair.”

“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”