I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?