I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.