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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.