"I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go."

"When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR."

"A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought."

"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."

"We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us."

"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."

"The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise."

"Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry."