Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.