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Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.


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ST. JEROME I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD ST. Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a m...
ST. BASIL What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain...
ST. LUCIA If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
ST. BASIL It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
BERNARD, ST. Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
BERNARD, ST. I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD, ST. Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
BERNARD, ST. The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD, ST. Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a...
BERNARD, ST. I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process,
ST. AMBROSE Where Peter is, there must be the Church
ST. AMBROSE There is no time of life past learning something.
ST. AMBROSE Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD ST. St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this no...
ST. LUCIA Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes...
ST. ISADORE Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
ST. AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
ST. AUGUSTINE People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course...
ST. AUGUSTINE At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not ...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
ST. AUGUSTINE Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end o...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor...
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 It is not that we keep His commandments f...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 None can become fit for the future life, who h...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We need not despair of any man, s...
ST. AUGUSTINE Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are le...
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their ...
ST. AUGUSTINE When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not becau...
ST. AUGUSTINE But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo...
ST. AUGUSTINE