What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

My dear cousin has a very odd relationship with fear -- though mostly she's too busy to be bothered with it.

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

The Bible is the place where God bears His soul.

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime.