"The extraordinary, lovely thing was that the music got to be pretty good, far better, I am now convinced, than it would have been if I’d put the music first ...
"We need to go out to the outskirts where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters."
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."