quotes by Steve Lopez

"".. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..""
— Steve Lopez (The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music)

"It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend."
— Steve Lopez (The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music)

""I feel jerked around. I feel sympathetic. I feel abused. It's almost harder to see Nathaniel on the good days than the bad, because you let yourself be deceived into thinking he's going to stay that way...And I can't just walk away. Part of it is the desire to follow through on something that's become more important and meaningful in my life, and to satisfy the human instinct to help someone less fortunate. And maybe there's something more.""
— Steve Lopez

"'I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like to hear it.'"
— Steve Lopez

"It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror."
— Steve Lopez (The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music)

"Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry."
— Steve Lopez

"You're only as good or bad as your latest attempt to make some connection with the world..."
— Steve Lopez

"its more interesting to be out in the world than to see it reflected in the mirror."
— Steve Lopez (The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music)