If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

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.

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.