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Most people know my music but will never read my books.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and I like the way in music that themes come back.

My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

I suppose books are my real passion in life.