Always ask for advice but never take it.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.

The blood of Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9 NIV).

Faith is a continuation of reason.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

As a matter of fact I've been asked to come when I'm free to play at the White House.

I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message.

Plans are things that change.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

Sometimes I do what I want to. The rest of the time- I do what I have to.