You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a next stage of exploration.

I was always busy doing something, being an only child.

At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.

The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."

Charles Burchfield would look at what you were working on and not say anything for several minutes. Then he would very sensitively respond - "Well, have you thought about?" or "Might you consider?" I respected that so much because I thought he was so sensitive to my work, and didn't want to offend me, but in the right way to encourage me.

At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.