There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.

When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.

I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.