Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.
I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.
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