I'm Really Quite Happy To

My Mother Says I Was Two-and-a-half When I Started Playing. My Father Was A Minister, And When He Went To Church In The Morning, She Would Put On Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole And Cole Porter Records. I'd Crawl Up On The Piano Stool, Sit On A Phone Book And Play.

When I Am Able To Be Present, Listening - Really Listening - To A Viewpoint Described Through Someone Else's Lens, I Am Here In The Now And Alive.

When You Don't Have People In Your Life Pushing You, Can You Push Yourself?

I Do Believe That We All Are, Fundamentally, Divided Creatures. Emotions Split From Intellect, Spirit From Flesh And Far Too Often Sexuality Is Disconnected From What We Feel, And Are, As Total Human Beings. But How, For Example, Can Anyone Have An Understanding Of The Virgin If They Don't Also Have An Understanding Of The Prostitute, The Saint And Sinner In One Body?

You Know That Saying, Bad Things Don't Happen To Good People? That's A Lie.