I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.