Nellie McKay

I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?

You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.