Interview:

Before there was man, before there were instruments, there were celestial sounds filling the universe – stars exploding, asteroids streaking across the blackness of space making a glorious whoosh with their fiery tales, and so many sizzling suns. It is the music of the spheres. And it will exist long after humanity is gone. All of man’s attempts to create beauty with music are simply reflections, homages, acknowledgements and adorations of the higher power that expresses itself so eloquently and so effortlessly in these sounds of the universe – sounds that from our vantage point we cannot even hear. Imagine if we could hear these sounds each night in the same way we can see the moon and the stars? It is a good thing we cannot, because unlike our ability to close our eyes or look away, we could not shut them out and they would be overwhelming. Better that the existence of these sounds is something we simply take on faith. If we could hear this music, could we even attempt to make music of our own? Or would we be too humbled by it, or only be able to play in harmony with it? When the music we make is beautiful, pure and true – perhaps only coming through us from this universal source – that is when it causes our spirits to soar, in the same way that the sight of a rising moon or a shooting star does. It connects us, ever so elusively, ever so momentarily, to the mystery and the majesty of what, for want of a more non-secular word, we call God.

“All of man’s attempts to create beauty with music are simply reflections, homages, acknowledgements and adorations of the higher power that expresses itself so eloquently and so effortlessly in these sounds of the universe.”
– Cherry Vanilla, actress, author, poet, and singer-songwriter