Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal
What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.