I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children.

Don't let the meanies get you down.

Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue.

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

Change is hard, but change is good.

Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

I know who I am and what I do.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.