It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.