For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.