“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.”

“We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too”

“When people ask me how they can know God's will for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God. Beyond that I really don't have any steps.”

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.”

“I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched... Eventually the watcher joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.Even the anatomy of a river was laid bare. Not far downstream was a dry channel where the river had run once, and part of the way to come to know a thing is through its death. But years ago I had known the river when it flowed through this now dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains with the waters of memory.”