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

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

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

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.