Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.

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

There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

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

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.