I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.

Our lives are interesting.

Dynamic benign neglect.

If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.

Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.