Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying..

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path..

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred..

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton..