Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.