I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.