There are times when I feel uninspired and I don't want to compose. I call these my 'bewitched' periods. I have to be touched with a magic wand.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

I never even had the time to read novels.

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.