“I was often in the pit lane the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.”

“I hear my silence talked of in every lane;
The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.”

“I know where my lane is, and I know how to stay in my lane. My lane is evolving the consciousness of people.”

“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”

“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise.”

“I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.”

“I hear noises which others don't hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don't hear either.”

“Quite often, when actors have such a strong charisma in real life, eventually it has to affect the characters they play. For myself I'm not charismatic in that way. I'm not a "performer". Ideally I would stay mute as River. That's the reason why, for a long time, I've said the opposite of what I really thought. In interviews, I've also played characters that I wasn't. I've lied and often contradicted myself to dumbfound people. It's all over now, because I have nothing left to hide. Eventually, I'm quite an ordinary person.”

“But I am used to it, just as I should be if I were always hearing the noise of a pulley; and you yourself endure to hear geese cackling.”