I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

Philanthropy is activism.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.