Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

"We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics... in a world where proms and marriage define the social order, we are, by force of our personalities and inner strength, rebels." (from Sasha Cagen's "The Quirkyalone").

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then
I contradict myself
I am large, I contain multitudes."

(from Walt Whitman's Song for Myself)

Me in a nutshell:

~daydreamer with feet firmly planted on the ground,
~intensely intellectually curious,
~playfully budding spiritually,
~pathologically passionate about music,
~fervent lover of the arts,
~exceedingly creative,
~razor-sharp witty,
~charmingly quirky,
~quietly humble,
~nuttier than a Snickers bar,
~and able to