And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.