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The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn’t really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn’t want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn’t right.
I became a set designer for opera. I’m a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
It’s a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don’t see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
I didn’t know much about him, and I wasn’t a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn’t know a lot about him.
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.