"Zooming in on the rich and calculating their skyscraping digits deceives us all into believing that, generally, people are getting richer. But look at your checkbook; absolutely the opposite is true. There's only so much money in the world, and the extravagance of one means the poverty of many..."

	"The way to sing or play a really loud note is not to scream with bombast until one's lungs bleed or to turn an amplifier all the way up to eleven. The way to sing or play a really loud note is to make all the other notes softer. Because music is all about relationships..."