My music is religion, and my religion is music. They are one.
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.
You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising
Painting is saying "Ta" to God.
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
Let's do something beautiful for God.
I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.
