The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale. . . I often feel as if I were dead. . . I seem to be losing my mind.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Talent works, genius creates.
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
When you play, never mind who listens to you.
The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.
If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.
Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.
I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.