The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.
Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But what's most exciting is the idea that we're all experiencing something that's bigger than us.
If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.
I used to be so young, how did I get so old?
I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.
Sold my soul to the devil for nice penmanship. Now I write real pretty but I'm starting to regret it.
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 911, they have nothing to fear.
I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.
My fans mean more to me than they will ever know. I call these people my friends and my confidence and if they are here to see me and they are here to support me, then that's all I need in life.