A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.

I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'

[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.