I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.