You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.