Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to you, "Why did you use a harmonium?" Or "What is that ringing sound that occurs here?" The questions are always "What does that song mean?" or "What were you trying to say here?"

The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear