Yet, Like The Sea And The Gallows,

Health, Money. That's What People Worried About In The 14th Century As Much As Today. I Find It So Much More Interesting Than The Supposed Activities Of Kings, Queens, Generals.

A Triptych In Which The Presiding Deities Are Mother, England And Me.

Thomas More's Birth Was Noted By His Father Upon A Blank Page At The Back Of A Copy Of Geoffrey Of Monmouth's 'historia Regum Britanniae'; For A Lawyer John More Was Remarkably Inexact In His References To That Natal Year, And The Date Has Been Moved From 1477 To 1478 And Back Again.

When I Was A Child I Wanted To Be Pope. My Greatest Disappointment Is Missing Out On That. I Also Wanted To Be A Tap Dancer But I Never Fulfilled That Ambition Either.

I Have Always Believed That The Material World Is Governed By Nonmaterial Sources, So That In That Sense 'english Music' Is An Exercise In The Spiritual As Well As The Material. I Have Always Been Attracted To The Gothic And Spiritual Imagination, And I've Always Been Interested In Visionaries.