You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.