I Prefer No One To Teach Me.

If There's A Deadline, I Work Late. If Not, I Like To Have Normal Hours, And Get Up Early And Work. When Things Are Going Well, I Hate To Quit. And Then I'll Work 'till Exhausted.

Jazz Is About Freedom Within Discipline. Usually A Dictatorship Like In Russia And Germany Will Prevent Jazz From Being Played Because It Just Seemed To Represent Freedom, Democracy And The United States.

So Often People Will Say That I Converted To The Catholic Religion. This Is False. Although I Was Raised As A Protestant, I Was Never Baptized And Had Never Been A Member Of Any Church. I Joined The Roman Catholic Church After I Had Written My Mass To Hope!during The Night I Dreamt The Entire Lord's Prayer With Chorus And Orchestra. I Jumped Out Of Bed And Wrote Down What I Had Heard As Accurately As I Could Remember. Because Of This Event I Decided That I Might As Well Join The Catholic Church Because Someone Somewhere Was Pulling Me Toward That End.

The First Choral Music I Remember Hearing Was Handel's 'messiah' When The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Broadcast It Over The Radio.

I'm Always Hoping For The Nights That Are Inspired Where You Almost Have An Out Of Body Experience