Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.

