I watched birds fly over it when autumn came. I never tired of it. There was something I found profoundly beautiful about that industrial landscape.
-Chapter 1, p. 4

Whenever I sang, it always felt like the division between the outside world and the inside world teetered on a very fine line. I was aware of what it felt like to look at life from the inside out and the outside in.
-Chapter 2, p. 37

My life is so funny sometimes. Everyone has these moments, but if you're not aware, you miss them. And we were so tired then nursing the babies and trying to go back to work. I always tell my son to pay attention, or he'll miss something spectacular.
-Chapter 6, p. 113

But fame is nothing like I could have imagined. It seemed to turn everything backward from what I remembered my life to be. I always lived on...