I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.
I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
The composer. . . joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of. . . well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
A brand is simply trust.
We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I've published something, I'll meet someone who says, "I'm Haitian, and I don't know this, so it must not be true. " Even if we're talking about a work of fiction. I've gotten very angry myself reading many things about Haiti. We're not a monolithic group; no group is. Also, it's important to keep in mind the genre in which we are writing. Fiction is full of invented stories about exceptional people in exceptional situations. Those situations are not always cheery or celebratory.
Over the weekend, John Kerry - the big John Kerry juggernaut moves on - he won primaries in Washington D. C. , Nevada and, I think, Canada. And he's so confident that he's started nailing that intern again.
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.