"Each book would lead me to another. These people conjured with words and made new worlds appear as if from nowhere. They wrote sentences that sent fireworks soaring through my mind and illuminated ideas of my own. But more than anything else, they taught me that I wasn’t alone. And for that reason more than any other, I wanted to be like them. What their words did when put to paper; I wanted mine to do when put to music". BILLY FRANKS