I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

Music is a form of prayer.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

I am a gardener of infinite time.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Out of the strain of the Doing into the peace of the Done.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.