My Music Is Very, Very Precise. It's

That Inner Voice Has Both Gentleness And Clarity. So To Get To Authenticity, You Really Keep Going Down To The Bone, To The Honesty, And The Inevitability Of Something.

When You Start Worrying About Form, Then You're Not In The Moment.

My Partner Sometimes Liked To Go Into The Studio And Improvise Voice Things Just For Fun. When I Returned From England I Transcribed One Of Her Melodies, And Had Some Of The Hospice Participants Sing It, Because They Said They Liked To Sing. Their Singing Is Very Raw, But I'm Going To Use It For The Final Work.

(there Is) Art That States The Problems Of Society And Wakes People Up To Make Changes In Their Lives Or In Their Communities,...art That Offers An Alternative, That Demonstrates Human Behavior That Can Become A Model For Creativity, Cooperation, Freedom And Playfulness, And...art That In Itself Provides Glimpses Of A Larger Consciousness Or Reflects Upon The Inexplicable.

As Artists, I Think That One Of The Good Qualities We Have Is That We're Imaginative. We're Resourceful. We Like Challenges.