People don't really think other people are the same.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.