I never did, and I never will, thank any man for altering any one word of my compositions without my privity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.
God's word is always effective and produces whatever it expresses. My words, on the contrary, cannot create anything; I can only change what already is into something else.
The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David's words, it's like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare - you should do something else.
I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.
I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.