...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.

People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.